Statistical Physics of the Jamming Transition: The Search for Simple Models

TL;DR

This paper explores the universal aspects of the jamming transition across different disordered systems, highlighting common behaviors like response slowing and structural heterogeneity onset.

Contribution

It introduces simplified models to understand the universal features of the jamming transition in granular materials, colloids, and glasses.

Findings

Jamming transition exhibits response slowing and structural heterogeneities.

Universal features are shared across different disordered systems.

Simple models can capture key aspects of the jamming transition.

Abstract

We investigate universal features of the jamming transition in granular materials, colloids and glasses. We show that the jamming transition in these systems has common features: slowing of response to external perturbation, and the onset of structural heterogeneities.