A new perspective on the jamming transition: geometry reveals hidden symmetries

dc.contributor.advisor	Corwin, Eric
dc.contributor.author	Morse, Peter
dc.date.accessioned	2016-10-27T18:34:52Z
dc.date.available	2016-10-27T18:34:52Z
dc.date.issued	2016-10-27
dc.description.abstract	Jamming is a physical process which is both easy to describe and incredibly difficult to understand. One such difficulty is that mechanical treatments of jamming focus on pressure, force, stress, and strain, which are identically zero below jamming, making it hard to differentiate systems whcih which are near or far from the transition. Instead, I introduce a geometric framework based on the Voronoi tesselation which treats all of phase space on an equal footing. This work will show that the jamming transition can be seen entirely through the geometry of the local environment of particles encoded in the Voronoi tesselation, and it will build the framework for an as yet undefined field theory for jamming.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1794/20436
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Oregon
dc.rights	Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US
dc.subject	Glass transition	en_US
dc.subject	Jamming	en_US
dc.subject	Voronoi	en_US
dc.title	A new perspective on the jamming transition: geometry reveals hidden symmetries
dc.type	Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.discipline	Department of Physics
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Oregon
thesis.degree.level	doctoral
thesis.degree.name	Ph.D.

Files

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1