Jamming at zero temperature, zero friction, and finite applied shear stress

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2009-07-09

arxiv.org/abs/0907.1605v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

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Via molecular dynamics simulations, we unveil the hysteretic nature of the jamming transition of soft repulsive frictionless spheres, as it occurs varying the volume fraction or the shear stress. In a given range of control parameters the system may be found both in a flowing and in an jammed state, depending on the preparation protocol. The hysteresis is due to an underlying energy landscape with many minima, as explained by a simple model, and disappears in the presence of strong viscous forces and in the small $\sigma$ limit. In this limit, structural quantities are continuous at the transition, while the asymptotic values of two time quantities such as the self-intermediate scattering function are discontinuous, giving to the jamming transition a mixed first-order second-order character close to that found at the glass transition of thermal systems.

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