Jamming transitions in amorphous packings of frictionless spheres occur over a continuous range of volume fractions.

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.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Physical Review Letters

• Publication date

  2009-10-02

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Materials Science, Physics

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  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.165701arXiv 0910.0364PMID 20482065
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