Force Relaxation in the q-model for Granular Media

Details Force Relaxation in the q-model for Granular Media Force Relaxation in the q-model for Granular Media

2001-10-11

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0110230v1

J. Stat. Phys. 109, 449 (2002).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

16 pages, LaTex, 5 figures

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We study the relaxation of force distributions in the q-model, assuming a uniform q-distribution. We show that "diffusion of correlations" makes this relaxation very slow. On a d-dimensional lattice, the asymptotic state is approached as a diffusion process in d-1 dimensions. Therefore the relaxation goes as the inverse square root of depth for d=2, and the inverse depth for d=3. Furthermore, we derive asymptotic modes of decay, along which an arbitrary short--range correlated initial distribution will decay towards the stationary state.

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