Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1899986 Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 2006 7 Pages PDF
Abstract
We report on a toy model for the glassy compaction dynamics of granular systems, introduced and investigated in collaboration with Anita Mehta and Peter Stadler. A stochastic dynamics is defined on a column of grains. Grains are anisotropic and possess a discrete orientational degree of freedom. Gravity induces long-range directional interactions down the column. The key control parameter of the model, ε, is a representation of granular shape. Rational and irrational values of ε correspond to very different kinds of behavior, both in statics (structure of ground states) and in low-temperature dynamics (retrieval of ground states).
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