Frictionless Shear Jamming, a finite-size phenomenon

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Abstract

Athermal frictionless spheres jam as their density is increased. A few years ago, it was shown that at sufficiently high density, an initially unjammed system of frictional particles can jam under shear. Here we study shear jamming in packings of frictionless particles, and show that it is a finite-size effect with scalings that can be understood within a generalized scaling theory.

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Authors

  • Marco Baity-Jesi

    Universidad Complutense de Madrid

  • Carl Goodrich

    Harvard University, SEAS, Harvard University

  • James Sethna

    Cornell University, Cornell Univ, Cornell University, Department of Physics, Physics, Cornell University

  • Andrea J. Liu

    University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA