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Emergent SO(3) Symmetry of the Frictionless Shear Jamming Transition

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

M. Baity-Jesi
C.P. Goodrich
A.J. Liu
S.R. Nagel
J.P. Sethna

Abstract

We study the shear jamming of athermal frictionless soft spheres, and find that in the thermodynamic limit, a shear-jammed state exists with different elastic properties from the isotropically-jammed state. For example, shear-jammed states can have a non-zero residual shear stress in the thermodynamic limit that arises from long-range stress-stress correlations. As a result, the ratio of the shear and bulk moduli, which in isotropically-jammed systems vanishes as the jamming transition is approached from above, instead approaches a constant. Despite these striking differences, we argue that in a deeper sense, the shear jamming and isotropic jamming transitions actually have the same symmetry, and that the differences can be fully understood by rotating the six-dimensional basis of the elastic modulus tensor. © 2017, Springer Science+Business Media New York.

Date Published

Journal

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volume

167

Issue

3-4

Number of Pages

735-748,

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85008197105&doi=10.1007%2fs10955-016-1703-9&partnerID=40&md5=4d435cece4b716d670742915437917ef

DOI

10.1007/s10955-016-1703-9

Research Area

Group (Lab)

James Sethna Group

Funding Source

DMR-1312160
348126
454935
454945
1312160
279950
DE-FG02-05ER46199
AP-2010-1318
FIS2012-35719-C02

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