Physics – Biological Physics
Scientific paper
2012-02-03
Soft Matter, 2011
Physics
Biological Physics
Scientific paper
We present a generalization of the granocentric model proposed in [Clusel et al., Nature, 2009, 460, 611615] that is capable of describing the local fluctuations inside not only polydisperse but also monodisperse packings of spheres. This minimal model does not take into account the relative particle positions, yet it captures positional disorder through local stochastic processes sampled by efficient Monte Carlo methods. The disorder is characterized by the distributions of local parameters, such as the number of neighbors and contacts, filled solid angle around a central particle and the cell volumes. The model predictions are in good agreement with our experimental data on monodisperse random close packings of PMMA particles. Moreover, the model can be used to predict the distributions of local fluctuations in any packing, as long as the average number of neighbors, contacts and the packing fraction are known. These distributions give a microscopic foundation to the statistical mechanics framework for jammed matter and allow us to calculate thermodynamic quantities such as the compactivity in the phase space of possible jammed configurations.
Brujic Jasna
Jorjadze Ivane
Newhall Katherine A.
Vanden-Eijnden Eric
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