R. N. Chacko
Slow Coarsening in Jammed Athermal Soft Particle Suspensions
Chacko, R. N.; Sollich, P.; Fielding, S. M.
Abstract
We simulate a densely jammed, athermal assembly of repulsive soft particles immersed in a solvent. Starting from an initial condition corresponding to a quench from a high temperature, we find nontrivial slow dynamics driven by a gradual release of stored elastic energy, with the root mean squared particle speed decaying as a power law in time with a fractional exponent. This decay is accompanied by the presence within the assembly of spatially localized and temporally intermittent “hot spots” of nonaffine deformation, connected by long-ranged swirls in the velocity field, reminiscent of the local plastic events and long-ranged elastic propagation that have been intensively studied in sheared amorphous materials. The pattern of hot spots progressively coarsens, with the hot-spot size and separation slowly growing over time, and the associated correlation length in particle speed increasing as a sublinear power law. Each individual spot, however, exists only transiently within an overall picture of strongly intermittent dynamics.
Citation
Chacko, R., Sollich, P., & Fielding, S. (2019). Slow Coarsening in Jammed Athermal Soft Particle Suspensions. Physical Review Letters, 123(10), Article 108001. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.123.108001
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 7, 2019 |
Online Publication Date | Sep 4, 2019 |
Publication Date | Sep 6, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Sep 10, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 10, 2019 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Print ISSN | 0031-9007 |
Electronic ISSN | 1079-7114 |
Publisher | American Physical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 123 |
Issue | 10 |
Article Number | 108001 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.123.108001 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1287535 |
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