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Multiscaling at Point J: Jamming is a Critical Phenomenon

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v3 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We analyze the jamming transition that occurs as a function of increasing packing density in a disordered two-dimensional assembly of disks at zero temperature for ``Point J'' of the recently proposed jamming phase diagram. We measure the total number of moving disks and the transverse length of the moving region, and find a power law divergence as the packing density increases toward a critical jamming density. This provides evidence that the T = 0 jamming transition as a function of packing density is a {\it second order} phase transition. Additionally we find evidence for multiscaling, indicating the importance of long tails in the velocity fluctuations.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0310291,
  title  = {Multiscaling at Point J: Jamming is a Critical Phenomenon},
  author = {J. A. Drocco and M. B. Hastings and C. J. Olson Reichhardt and C. Reichhardt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0310291},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 5 figures; extensive new numerical data; final version in press at PRL

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