Origin of Noncubic Scaling Law in Disordered Granular Packing.
Phys Rev Lett
; 118(23): 238002, 2017 Jun 09.
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ABSTRACT
Recent diffraction experiments on metallic glasses have unveiled an unexpected noncubic scaling law between density and average interatomic distance, which led to the speculation of the presence of fractal glass order. Using x-ray tomography we identify here a similar noncubic scaling law in disordered granular packing of spherical particles. We find that the scaling law is directly related to the contact neighbors within the first nearest neighbor shell, and, therefore, is closely connected to the phenomenon of jamming. The seemingly universal scaling exponent around 2.5 arises due to the isostatic condition with a contact number around 6, and we argue that the exponent should not be universal.
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