Critical energy landscape of linear soft spheres

We show that soft spheres interacting with a linear ramp potential when overcompressed beyond the jamming point fall in an amorphous solid phase which is critical, mechanically marginally stable and share many features with the jamming point itself. In the whole phase, the relevant local minima o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silvio Franz, Antonio Sclocchi, Pierfrancesco Urbani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SciPost 2020-07-01
Series:SciPost Physics
Online Access:https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.9.1.012