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Scaling ansatz for the jamming transition

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

C.P. Goodrich
A.J. Liu
J.P. Sethna

Abstract

We propose a Widom-like scaling ansatz for the critical jamming transition. Our ansatz for the elastic energy shows that the scaling of the energy, compressive strain, shear strain, system size, pressure, shear stress, bulk modulus, and shear modulus are all related to each other via scaling relations, with only three independent scaling exponents. We extract the values of these exponents from already known numerical or theoretical results, and we numerically verify the resulting predictions of the scaling theory for the energy and residual shear stress. We also derive a scaling relation between pressure and residual shear stress that yields insight into why the shear and bulk moduli scale differently. Our theory shows that the jamming transition exhibits an emergent scale invariance, setting the stage for the potential development of a renormalization group theory for jamming.

Date Published

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volume

113

Issue

35

Number of Pages

9745-9750,

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84984670424&doi=10.1073%2fpnas.1601858113&partnerID=40&md5=25bae1ddc3885679f38119d56acd1705

DOI

10.1073/pnas.1601858113

Group (Lab)

James Sethna Group

Funding Source

1312160

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