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Amorphous systems of soft particles above jamming have more contacts than are needed to achieve mechanical equilibrium. The force network of a granular system with a fixed contact network is thus underdetermined, and can be characterized as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-09 James D. Sartor , Eric I. Corwin

We study an interacting system of $N$ classical particles on a line at thermal equilibrium. The particles are confined by a harmonic trap and repelling each other via pairwise interaction potential that behaves as a power law $\propto…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-10 Sanaa Agarwal , Abhishek Dhar , Manas Kulkarni , Anupam Kundu , Satya N. Majumdar , David Mukamel , Gregory Schehr

A theory for kinetic arrest in isotropic systems of repulsive, radially-interacting particles is presented that predicts exponents for the scaling of various macroscopic quantities near the rigidity transition that are in agreement with…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 D. A. Head

The shear response of soft solids can be modeled with linear elasticity, provided the forcing is slow and weak. Both of these approximations must break down when the material loses rigidity, such as in foams and emulsions at their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-07-06 Julia Boschan , Daniel Vagberg , Ellak Somfai , Brian P. Tighe

Hyperuniformity characterizes a state of matter that is poised at a critical point at which density or volume-fraction fluctuations are anomalously suppressed at infinite wavelengths. Recently, much attention has been given to the link…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 Steven Atkinson , Ge Zhang , Adam B. Hopkins , Salvatore Torquato

At the microscopic level, plastic flow of a jammed, disordered material consists of a series of particle rearrangements that cannot be reversed by subsequent deformation. An infinitesimal deformation of the same material has no…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-22 Nathan C. Keim , Paulo E. Arratia

The spectrum of an exactly solvable non-relativistic system of a charged particle interacting with a quantized electromagnetic mode is studied with various polarizations. Quasiparticle dispersion relations can be derived from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 P. Mati

In this work we provide an overview of jamming transitions in two dimensional systems focusing on the limit of frictionless particle interactions in the absence of thermal fluctuations. We first discuss jamming in systems with short range…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-06 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Amorphous particulate matter constitutes a wide range of natural and synthetic materials. Despite this ubiquity, the way in which these systems' disordered microstructure couples to their often subtle and complex dynamical behavior is not…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-09 Erin G. Teich , Jason Z. Kim , Dani S. Bassett

We discuss the linear and non-linear rheology of concentrated (sub)microscale emulsions, amorphous disordered solids composed of repulsive and deformable soft colloidal spheres. Based on recent results from simulation and theory, we derive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-11-14 Frank Scheffold , Frédéric Cardinaux , Thomas G. Mason

We investigate the mechanical response of jammed packings of repulsive, frictionless spherical particles undergoing isotropic compression. Prior simulations of the soft-particle model, where the repulsive interactions scale as a power-law…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-24 Philip Wang , Shiyun Zhang , Philip Tuckman , Nicholas T. Ouellette , Mark D. Shattuck , Corey S. O'Hern

It is shown that the Schr\"{o}dinger nonrelativistic equation of a system of interacting particles is not a rigorously nonrelativistic equation since it is based on the implicit assumption of finiteness of the interaction propagation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. V. Kuzmenko

The jamming transition characterizes athermal systems of particles interacting via finite range repulsive potentials, and occurs on increasing the density when particles cannot avoid making contacts with those of their first coordination…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-10-12 M. Pica Ciamarra , P. Sollich

Recent computer simulations have uncovered the striking difference between the jamming transition of spherical and non-spherical particles. While systems of spherical particles are isostatic at the jamming point, systems of nonspherical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-08-29 Harukuni Ikeda , Pierfrancesco Urbani , Francesco Zamponi

In this work, we investigate the dynamics of interacting particle systems subjected to repulsive forces, such as lattices of magnetized particles. To this end, we first develop a general model capable of capturing the complete dynamical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Weijian Jiao , Stefano Gonella

Mechanical non-reciprocity-manifested as asymmetric responses to opposing mechanical stimuli-has traditionally been achieved through intricate structural nonlinearities in metamaterials. However, continuum solids with inherent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-17 Chang Xu , Shuaihu Wang , Hong Wang , Xu Liu , Zemin Liu , Yiqiu Zhao , Wenqi Hu , Qin Xu

The jamming transition of particles with finite-range interactions is characterized by a variety of critical phenomena, including power law distributions of marginal contacts. We numerically study a recently proposed simple model of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Yoav Kallus

Colloidal and other granular media experience a transition to rigidity known as jamming if the fill fraction is increased beyond a critical value. The resulting jammed structures are locally disordered, bear applied loads inhomogenously,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-04 Christopher J. Burke , Timothy J. Atherton

We study the long-time behavior of two run-and-tumble particles on the real line subjected to an attractive interaction potential and jamming interactions, which prevent the particles from crossing. We provide the explicit invariant…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Leo Hahn

We study a three-body system with zero-range interactions in a one-dimensional harmonic trap. The system consists of two spin-polarized fermions and a third particle which is distinct from two others (2+1 system). First we assume that the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-11 N. J. S. Loft , A. S. Dehkharghani , N. P. Mehta , A. G. Volosniev , N. T. Zinner