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Pinaki Chaudhuri1, Ludovic Berthier, Srikanth Sastry.
Abstract
We numerically produce fully amorphous assemblies of frictionless spheres in three dimensions and study the jamming transition these packings undergo at large volume fractions. We specify four protocols yielding a critical value for the jamming volume fraction which is sharply defined in the limit of large system size, but is different for each protocol. Thus, we directly establish the existence of a continuous range of volume fractions where nonequilibrium jamming transitions occur. However, these jamming transitions share the same critical behavior. Our results suggest that, even in the absence of partial crystalline ordering, a unique location of a random close packing does not exist.Year: 2010 PMID: 20482065 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.165701
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN: 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161