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Pinning Susceptibility: The Effect of Dilute, Quenched Disorder on Jamming

Cornell Affiliated Author(s)

Author

A.L. Graves
S. Nashed
E. Padgett
C.P. Goodrich
A.J. Liu
J.P. Sethna

Abstract

We study the effect of dilute pinning on the jamming transition. Pinning reduces the average contact number needed to jam unpinned particles and shifts the jamming threshold to lower densities, leading to a pinning susceptibility, χp. Our main results are that this susceptibility obeys scaling form and diverges in the thermodynamic limit as χp|φ-φc|-γp where φc is the jamming threshold in the absence of pins. Finite-size scaling arguments yield these values with associated statistical (systematic) errors γp=1.018±0.026(0.291) in d=2 and γp=1.534±0.120(0.822) in d=3. Logarithmic corrections raise the exponent in d=2 to close to the d=3 value, although the systematic errors are very large. © 2016 American Physical Society.

Date Published

Journal

Physical Review Letters

Volume

116

Issue

23

URL

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84974712323&doi=10.1103%2fPhysRevLett.116.235501&partnerID=40&md5=58c51d30b8e5f5770c5e2711d0438ad1

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.235501

Group (Lab)

James Sethna Group

Funding Source

DMR 1312160
1312160
DE-FG02-05ER46199

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