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                                              “The physics of jamming:

     a journey from marble pebbles toward scaling invariant field theory”

 

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Thursday, 26. April 2018

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 15:15 – 16:15

 

                                   

                                                            Giorgio Parisi

                                                   (University of Rome "La Sapienza")

 

Abstract :

Jamming is a well know phenomenon that you have experienced when the traffic if very

heavy. You cannot move because your neighbors block you and your neighbors cannot

move because you block them. Jamming is a collective phenomenon.

 

Marble pebbles on the beach are one example of jamming.

However also for well-levigated pebbles, friction will play an important role.

 

Statistical mechanics may be used to study the case of systems without friction.

The most studied case is the hard sphere gas where the jamming point is reached in the

limit of infinite pressure. In the case of frictionless jamming long-range correlations

are present: we have a new kind of critical system.

 

Recently the properties of the hard sphere gas have been analytically computed in the

framework of the mean field approximation. Non-trivial critical exponents have been found.

 

The behavior of the correlation functions at large distances has not yet computed

(it is technically very challenging): at the end one should find a new scaling invariant

field theory.

 

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