Spectral responses in granular compaction

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2009-11-06

arxiv.org/abs/0911.1376v1

Phys. Rev. E 81, 031302 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

18 pages, 17 figures. Submitted to PRE

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.81.031302

The slow compaction of a gently tapped granular packing is reminiscent of the low-temperature dynamics of structural and spin glasses. Here, I probe the dynamical spectrum of granular compaction by measuring a complex (frequency-dependent) volumetric susceptibility $\tilde{\chi}_v$. While the packing density $\rho$ displays glass-like slow relaxations (aging) and history-dependence (memory) at low tapping amplitudes, the susceptibility $\tilde{\chi}_v$ displays very weak aging effects, and its spectrum shows no sign of a rapidly growing timescale. These features place $\tilde{\chi}_v$ in sharp contrast to its dielectric and magnetic counterparts in structural and spin glasses; instead, $\tilde\chi_v$ bears close similarities to the complex specific heat of spin glasses. This, I suggest, indicates the glass-like dynamics in granular compaction are governed by statistically rare relaxation processes that become increasingly separated in timescale from the typical relaxations of the system. Finally, I examine the effect of finite system size on the spectrum of compaction dynamics. Starting from the ansatz that low frequency processes correspond to large scale particle rearrangements, I suggest the observed finite size effects are consistent with the suppression of large-scale collective rearrangements in small systems.

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