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1Department of Physics, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden.
Abstract:
Numerical simulations of soft-core frictionless disks in two dimensions are carried out to study the behavior of a simple liquid as a function of temperature T, packing fraction φ, and uniform applied shear strain rate γ[over ·]. Inferring the hard-core limit from our soft-core results, we find that it depends on the two parameters φ and T/γ[over ·]. Here T/γ[over ·]→0 defines the athermal limit in which a shear-driven jamming transition occurs at a well defined φ(J) and T/γ[over ·]→∞ defines the thermalized limit where an equilibrium glass transition may take place at φ(G). This conclusion argues that athermal jamming and equilibrium glassy behavior are not controlled by the same critical point. Preliminary results suggest φ(G)<φ(J).
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