Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2011-10-03
Phys. Rev. E 85 (2012) 011308
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
4 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
Typical quasistatic compression algorithms for generating jammed packings of athermal, purely repulsive particles begin with dilute configurations and then apply successive compressions with relaxation of the elastic energy allowed between each compression step. It is well-known that during isotropic compression athermal systems with purely repulsive interactions undergo a jamming transition at packing fraction $\phi_J$ from an unjammed state with zero pressure to a jammed, rigid state with nonzero pressure. Using extensive computer simulations, we show that a novel second-order-like transition, the contact percolation transition, which signals the formation of a system-spanning cluster of mutually contacting particles, occurs at $\phi_P < \phi_J$, preceding the jamming transition. By measuring the number of non-floppy modes of the dynamical matrix, and the displacement field and time-dependent pressure following compression, we find that the contact percolation transition also heralds the onset of complex spatiotemporal response to applied stress. Thus, highly heterogeneous, cooperative, and non-affine particle motion occurs in unjammed systems significantly below the jamming transition for $\phi_P < \phi < \phi_J$, not only for jammed systems with $\phi > \phi_J$.
O'Hern Corey S.
Shattuck Mark D.
Shen Tianqi
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