Soft Sphere Packings at Finite Pressure but Unstable to Shear

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2012-03-15

arxiv.org/abs/1203.3364v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

5 pages, 6 figures. To be published in Physical Review Letters

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When are athermal soft spheres packings jammed ? Any experimentally relevant definition must at the very least require a jammed packing to resist shear. We demonstrate that widely used (numerical) protocols in which particles are compressed together, can and do produce packings which are unstable to shear - and that the probability of generating such packings reaches one near jamming. We introduce a new protocol that, by allowing the system to explore different box shapes as it equilibrates, generates truly jammed packings with strictly positive shear moduli G. For these packings, the scaling of the average of G is consistent with earlier results, while the probability distribution P(G) exhibits novel and rich scaling

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