Exploratory study of the glassy landscape near jamming.

Artiaco, Claudia; Baldan, Paolo; Parisi, Giorgio · Phys Rev E · 2020

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We present a study of the landscape structure of hard and soft spheres as a function of the packing fraction and of the energy. We find that, on approaching the jamming transition, the number of different configurations available to the system increases steeply and a hierarchical organization of the landscape emerges. We use the knowledge of the structure of the landscape to predict the values of thermodynamic observables on the edge of the transition.