Athermal jamming versus thermalized glassiness in sheared frictionless particles.

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

Department of Physics, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden.

Published: July 2013

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  • The study involves numerical simulations of soft-core frictionless disks in 2D to examine liquid behavior based on temperature, packing fraction, and shear strain rate.
  • It finds that the relationship between packing fraction (φ) and temperature divided by shear strain rate (T/γ) influences the transition points: one for athermal jamming and another for thermalization.
  • Results indicate that the packing fraction at the glass transition (φG) is less than that at the jamming transition (φJ), suggesting distinct critical points for these two phenomena.

Article Abstract

Numerical simulations of soft-core frictionless disks in two dimensions are carried out to study the behavior of a simple liquid as a function of temperature T, packing fraction φ, and uniform applied shear strain rate γ[over ·]. Inferring the hard-core limit from our soft-core results, we find that it depends on the two parameters φ and T/γ[over ·]. Here T/γ[over ·]→0 defines the athermal limit in which a shear-driven jamming transition occurs at a well defined φ(J) and T/γ[over ·]→∞ defines the thermalized limit where an equilibrium glass transition may take place at φ(G). This conclusion argues that athermal jamming and equilibrium glassy behavior are not controlled by the same critical point. Preliminary results suggest φ(G)<φ(J).

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