Fluctuations, Jamming, and Yielding for a Driven Probe Particle in Disordered Disk Assemblies

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2009-08-11

arxiv.org/abs/0908.1592v1

Phys. Rev. E 82, 051306 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

11 pages, 20 postscript figures

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Using numerical simulations we examine the velocity fluctuations of a probe particle driven with constant force through a two-dimensional disordered assembly of disks which has a well-defined jamming point J at a density of \phi_J=0.843. As \phi increases toward \phi_J, the average velocity of the probe particle decreases and the velocity fluctuations show an increasingly intermittent or avalanchelike behavior. When the system is within a few percent of the jamming density, the velocity distributions are exponential, while when the system is less than a percent away from jamming, the velocity distributions have a non-exponential or power law character. The velocity power spectra exhibit a crossover from a Lorentzian form to a 1/f shape near jamming. We extract a correlation exponent \nu which is in good agreement with recent shear simulations. For \phi > \phi_J, there is a critical threshold force F_c that must be applied for the probe particle to move through the sample which increases with increasing \phi. The onset of the probe motion above \phi_J occurs via a local yielding of the particles around the probe particle which we term a local shear banding effect.

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