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Mechanical, vibrational, and dynamical properties of amorphous systems near jamming

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Amorphous systems undergo the jamming transition when the density increases, temperature drops, or external shear stress decreases, as described by the jamming phase diagram which was proposed to unify different processes such as the glass transition, random close packing, and yielding under shear stress. At zero temperature and shear stress, the jamming transition occurs at a critical density at Point J. In this paper, we review recent studies of the material properties of marginally jammed solids and the glassy dynamics in the vicinity of Point J. As the only singular point in the jamming phase diagram, Point J exhibits special criticality in both mechanical and vibrational quantities. Dynamics approaching the glass transition in the vicinity of Point J show critical scalings, suggesting that the molecular glass transition and the colloidal glass transition are equivalent in the hard sphere limit. All these studies shed light on the long-standing puzzles of the glass transition and unusual properties of amorphous solids.

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Xu, N. Mechanical, vibrational, and dynamical properties of amorphous systems near jamming. Front. Phys. China 6, 109–123 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-010-0102-y

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