Effects of particle-size ratio on jamming of binary mixtures

Abstract

We perform a systematic numerical study of the effects of the particle-size ratio $R\ge 1$ on the properties of jammed binary mixtures. We find that changing $R$ does not qualitatively affect the critical scaling of the pressure and coordination number with the compression near the jamming transition, but the critical volume fraction at the jamming transition varies with $R$. Moreover, the static structure factor (density correlation) $S(k)$ strongly depends on $R$ and shows distinct long wave-length behaviors between large and small particles. Thus the previously reported behavior of $S(k)\sim k$ in the long wave-length limit is only a special case in the $R\to 1$ limit, and cannot be simply generalized to jammed systems with $R>1$.

5 pages and 4 figures, submitted to Soft Matter, special issue on Granular and Jammed Materials

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