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Compression-driven jamming of athermal frictionless spherocylinders in two dimensions
Theodore Marschall1, S Teitel1
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
Abstract:
We simulate numerically the compression-driven jamming of athermal, frictionless, soft-core spherocylinders in two dimensions, for a range of particle aspect ratios α. We find the critical packing fraction ϕ_{J}(α) for the jamming transition and the average number of contacts per particle z_{J}(α) at jamming. We find that both are nonmonotonic, with a peak at α≈1. We find that configurations at the compression-driven jamming point are always hypostatic for all α, with z_{J}
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