Excitations of ellipsoid packings near jamming
Excitations of ellipsoid packings near jamming
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10.1209/0295-5075/87/26001
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2009-04
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Z. Zeravcic;N. Xu;A. Liu;S. Nagel;W. V. S. I. Lorentz;Leiden University;The Netherlands.;James Franck Institute;D. Physics;U. Chicago;I. Chicago;Astronomy;U. Pennsylvania;P. Philadelphia
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Z. Zeravcic;N. Xu;A. Liu;S. Nagel;W. V. S. I. Lorentz;Leiden University;The Netherlands.;James Franck Institute;D. Physics;U. Chicago;I. Chicago;Astronomy;U. Pennsylvania;P. Philadelphia
We study the vibrational modes of three-dimensional jammed packings of soft ellipsoids of revolution as a function of particle aspect ratio ε and packing fraction. At the jamming transition for ellipsoids, as distinct from the idealized case using spheres where ε=1, there are many unconstrained and nontrivial rotational degrees of freedom. These constitute a set of zero-frequency modes that are gradually mobilized into a new rotational band as |ε-1| increases. Quite surprisingly, as this new band is separated from zero frequency by a gap, and lies below the onset frequency for translational vibrations, ω*, the presence of these new degrees of freedom leaves unaltered the basic scenario that the translational spectrum is determined only by the average contact number. Indeed, ω* depends solely on coordination as it does for compressed packings of spheres. We also discuss the regime of large |ε-1|, where the two bands merge.