English

Jamming vs. Caging in Three Dimensional Jamming Percolation

Statistical Mechanics 2017-06-08 v2 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

We investigate a three-dimensional kinetically-constrained model that exhibits two types of phase transitions at different densities. At the jamming density ρJ \rho_J there is a mixed-order phase transition in which a finite fraction of the particles become frozen, but the other particles may still diffuse throughout the system. At the caging density ρC>ρJ \rho_C > \rho_J , the mobile particles are trapped in finite cages and no longer diffuse. The caging transition occurs due to a percolation transition of the unfrozen sites, and we numerically find that it is a continuous transition with the same critical exponents as random percolation.

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@article{arxiv.1602.00876,
  title  = {Jamming vs. Caging in Three Dimensional Jamming Percolation},
  author = {Nimrod Segall and Eial Teomy and Yair Shokef},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.00876},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

To appear in JSTAT special issue on structure in glassy and jammed systems

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