Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2010-11-25
J. Stat. Mech. P01004 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
8 pages, 6 figs. Talk presented at Statphys24 (July 2010, Cairns, Australia)
Scientific paper
10.1088/1742-5468/2011/01/P01004
When materials such as foams or emulsions are compressed, they display solid behaviour above the so-called `jamming' transition. Because compression is done out-of-equilibrium in the absence of thermal fluctuations, jamming appears as a new kind of a nonequilibrium phase transition. In this proceeding paper, we suggest that tools from equilibrium statistical mechanics can in fact be used to describe many specific features of the jamming transition. Our strategy is to introduce thermal fluctuations and use statistical mechanics to describe the complex phase behaviour of systems of soft repulsive particles, before sending temperature to zero at the end of the calculation. We show that currently available implementations of standard tools such as integral equations, mode-coupling theory, or replica calculations all break down at low temperature and large density, but we suggest that new analytical schemes can be developed to provide a fully microscopic, quantitative description of the jamming transition.
Berthier Ludovic
Jacquin Hugo
Zamponi Francesco
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