Jamming in finite systems: stability, anisotropy, fluctuations, and scaling.

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys

James Franck and Enrico Fermi Institutes, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.

Published: August 2014

Athermal packings of soft repulsive spheres exhibit a sharp jamming transition in the thermodynamic limit. Upon further compression, various structural and mechanical properties display clean power-law behavior over many decades in pressure. As with any phase transition, the rounding of such behavior in finite systems close to the transition plays an important role in understanding the nature of the transition itself. The situation for jamming is surprisingly rich: the assumption that jammed packings are isotropic is only strictly true in the large-size limit, and finite-size has a profound effect on the very meaning of jamming. Here, we provide a comprehensive numerical study of finite-size effects in sphere packings above the jamming transition, focusing on stability as well as the scaling of the contact number and the elastic response.

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