Particle-scale reversibility in athermal particulate media below jamming

Abstract

We perform numerical simulations of athermal repulsive frictionless disks and spheres in two and three spatial dimensions undergoing cyclic quasi-static simple shear to investigate particle-scale reversible motion. We identify three classes of steady-state dynamics as a function of packing fraction ϕand maximum strain amplitude per cycle γ_{\rm max}. Point-reversible states, where particles do not collide and exactly retrace their intra-cycle trajectories, occur at low ϕand γ_{\rm max}. Particles in loop-reversible states undergo numerous collisions and execute complex trajectories, but return to their initial positions at the end of each cycle. Loop-reversible dynamics represents a novel form of self-organization that enables reliable preparation of configurations with specified structural and mechanical properties over a broad range of ϕfrom contact percolation to jamming onset at ϕ_J. For sufficiently large ϕand γ_{\rm max}, systems display irreversible dynamics with nonzero self-diffusion.

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