Mean field theory of jamming of nonspherical particles

Abstract

Recent computer simulations have uncovered the striking difference between the jamming transition of spherical and non-spherical particles. While systems of spherical particles are isostatic at the jamming point, systems of nonspherical particles are not: the contact number and shear modulus of the former exhibit a square root singularity near jamming, while those of the latter are linearly proportional to the distance from jamming. Furthermore, while our theoretical understanding of jamming of spherical particles is well developed, the same is not true for nonspherical particles. To understand jamming of non-spherical particles, in the previous work [Brito, PNAS 115(46), 111736], we extended the perceptron model, whose SAT/UNSAT transition belongs to the same universality class of jamming of spherical particles, to include additional variables accounting for the rotational degrees of freedom of nonspherical particles. In this paper, we give more detailed investigations of the full scaling behavior of the model near the jamming transition point in both convex and non-convex phases.

30 pages, 5 figures

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