The jamming transition and new percolation universality classes in particulate systems with attraction
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-13 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We numerically study the jamming transition in particulate systems with attraction by investigating their mechanical response at zero temperature. We find three regimes of mechanical behavior separated by two critical transitions--connectivity and rigidity percolation. The transitions belong to different universality classes than their lattice counterparts, due to force balance constraints. We also find that these transitions are unchanged at low temperatures and resemble gelation transitions in experiments on colloidal and silica gels.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0708.1961,
title = {The jamming transition and new percolation universality classes in particulate systems with attraction},
author = {Gregg Lois and Jerzy Blawzdziewicz and Corey S. O'Hern},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.1961},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables