Athermal Jamming Vs Thermalized Glassiness in a Simple Model of Soft-Core Interacting Particles

ORAL

Abstract

Numerical simulations of soft-core frictionless disks in two dimensions are carried out to study shear viscosity $\eta$ and pressure $p$ of a simple model liquid, as a function of thermal temperature $T$, packing fraction $\phi$, and uniform applied shear strain rate $\dot\gamma$. We find that viscosity in the athermal hard-core limit, $\lim_{\dot\gamma\to 0}[\lim_{T\to 0} \eta]$, is singularly disconnected from viscosity in the hard-core thermal limit, $\lim_{T\to 0}[\lim_{\dot\gamma\to 0} \eta]$, demonstrating that thermal glassy behavior is not governed by the athermal jamming critical point, ``point J".

*Work supported by Department of Energy Grant No. DE-FG02-06ER46298 and Swedish Research Council Grant No. 2010-3725. Simulations were performed on resources provided by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at PDC and HPC2N.

Authors

  • Stephen Teitel

    • University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627
    • University of Rochester
  • Peter Olsson

    • Ume{\aa} University