Jamming transition of a granular pile below the angle of repose

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2003-05-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0305703v1

Eur. Phys. J. B 36, 105 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

9 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjb/e2003-00322-1

We study experimentally the relaxation towards mechanical equilibrium of a granular pile which has just experienced an avalanche and discuss it in the more general context of the granular jamming transition. Two coexisting dynamics are observed in the surface layer: a short time exponential decay consisting in rapid and independent moves of grains and intermittent bursts consisting in spatially correlated moves lasting for longer time. The competition of both dynamics results in long-lived intermittent transients, the total duration of which can late more than a thousand of seconds. We measure a two-time relaxation function, and relate it via a simple statistical model to a more usual two-time correlation function which exhibits strong similarities with auto-correlation functions found in aging systems. Localized perturbation experiments also allow us to test the pile surface layer receptivity.

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