Unifying concepts in granular media and glasses / edited by A. Coniglio ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coniglio, Antonio, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Granular materials--Congresses.

Granular materials.

Spin glasses--Congresses.

Spin glasses.

Glass--Congresses.

Glass.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Deep connections are emerging in the physics of non-thermal systems,such as granular media, and other ""complex systems"" such as glass formers, spin glasses, colloids or gels. This book discusses the unifying physical theories, developed in recent years, for the description of these systems. The special focus of the book is on recent important developments in the formulation of a Statistical Mechanics approach to granular media and the description of out-of-equilibrium dynamics, such as ""jamming"" phenomena, ubiquitous in these ""complex systems"". The book collects contributions from leadin

Contents:

Cover; Preface; Volume Contents; The Properties of Jamming at Zero Temperature; Acknowledgments; References; A Basis for the Statistical Mechanics of Granular Systems; Introduction; Classical Statistical Mechanics; Statistical Mechanics for Jammed Matter; Definition of the Volume Function, W; Entropy and Compactivity; Remarks; The Classical Boltzmann Equation; 'Boltzmann Approach' to Granular Matter; Experimental Validation of the Statistical Mechanics Concepts; References; A Possible Experimental Test of the Thermodynamic Approach to Granular Media; Introduction; References

Memory and Kovacs Effects in the Parking-lot Model: An Approximate Statistical-mechanical TreatmentIntroduction; The Model and its Properties; Statistical-mechanical Formalism with Two Thermodynamic Parameters; Approximate Description of the Compaction Kinetics; Memory and Kovacs Effects; Conclusion; References; Statistical Mechanics of Jamming and Segregation in Granular Media; Introduction; Granular Media; Approaches a la Edwards to Statistical Mechanics of Granular Media; Configurational Entropy of Granular Media and Glasses Frozen at T = 0; Lattice Models for Granular Media

A Monodisperse Hard-sphere System under GravityThe Stationary States of the Tap Dynamics; Edwards' Averages; Relaxation during MC ""Tap"" Dynamics; A Mean Field Study of Hard Spheres under Gravity on a Random Graph; A Hard-sphere Binary Mixture under Gravity; Conclusions; References; Granular Compaction; Introduction; Experimental Set-up; Experimental Results on 1 mm Spheres; Compaction of Anisotropic Granular Media; Discussion; Packing Microstructure; Movement of the Grains; Conclusion and Open Questions; Acknowledgments; References

Experiments in Randomly Agitated Granular Assemblies Close to the Jamming TransitionIntroduction; Vibration of a 2D model Granular Assembly; Experimental Set-Up; The Large Scale and Long Time Convection Dynamics; Suppression of Convection; Outlook; Compacting a 3D Granular Assembly; Experimental Set-up; Measurement Techniques; Preliminary Results; Experiment 1 - Compaction and Microscopic Dynamics; Experiment 2 - Dynamical Intermittency; Mobility of an Intruding Grain; Conclusions; References; An Oscillator in the Granular Matter; Introduction; Experimental; Granular Liquid; Granular Glass

DiscussionReferences; Segregation Phases in a Vibrated Binary Granular Layer; Introduction; The Experiment; Single Particle Motion; Granular Segregation; Segregation Phase Transition; Binary Gas, Segregation Liquid and Segregation Crystal Phases; Oscillatory States; Discussion and Conclusion; References; Shaken, not Stirred: why Gravel Packs Better than Bricks; Introduction; The Model: Definition and Ground States; Zero-temperature Dynamics: (ir)Retrievability of Ground States; Low-temperature Dynamics; Discussion; Acknowledgements; References

On Pre-asymptotic Aging in Finite Dimensional Spin Glasses

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-96600-9

9786610966004

0-08-047468-3

OCLC:

476042344