Jamming transitions in amorphous packings of frictionless spheres occur over a continuous range of volume fractions.

نویسندگان

  • Pinaki Chaudhuri
  • Ludovic Berthier
  • Srikanth Sastry
چکیده

We numerically produce fully amorphous assemblies of frictionless spheres in three dimensions and study the jamming transition these packings undergo at large volume fractions. We specify four protocols yielding a critical value for the jamming volume fraction which is sharply defined in the limit of large system size, but is different for each protocol. Thus, we directly establish the existence of a continuous range of volume fractions where nonequilibrium jamming transitions occur. However, these jamming transitions share the same critical behavior. Our results suggest that, even in the absence of partial crystalline ordering, a unique location of a random close packing does not exist.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 104 16  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010