Jamming by shape in kinetically constrained models

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2014 Mar;89(3):032204. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.89.032204. Epub 2014 Mar 14.

Abstract

We derive expressions for the critical density for jamming in a hyper-rhomboid system of arbitrary shape in any dimension for the Kob-Andersen and Fredrickson-Andersen kinetically constrained models. We find that changing the system's shape without altering its total volume or particle density may induce jamming. We also find a transition between shapes in which the correlation length between jammed particles is infinite and shapes that have a finite correlation length.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't