Characterization of a Freezing/Melting Transition in a Vibrated and Sheared Granular Medium
arXiv:cond-mat/0512549 · doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2006/07/P07018
Abstract
We describe experiments on monodisperse spherical particles in an annular cell geometry, vibrated from below and sheared from above. This system shows a freezing/melting transition such that under sufficient vibration a crystallized state is observed, which can be melted by sufficient shear. We characterize the hysteretic transition between these two states, and observe features reminiscent of both a jamming transition and critical phenomena.
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