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1Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
Abstract:
Results are presented for the autocorrelation function of the vortexlike nonaffine piece of the linear elastic displacement field in dense random bidisperse packings of harmonically repulsive disks in 2D. The autocorrelation function is shown to scale precisely with the length of the simulation cell in systems ranging from 20 to 100 particles across. It is shown that, to first order, the displacement fields can be thought to arise from the action of uncorrelated local random forcing of a homogeneous elastic sheet, and a theory is presented which gives excellent quantitative agreement with the form of the correlation functions. These results suggest measurements to be made in many types of densely packed, random materials where the elastic displacement fields are accessible experimentally such as granular materials, dense emulsions, colloidal suspensions, etc.
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