Abstract
We investigate a three-dimensional kinetically-constrained model that exhibits two types of phase transitions at different densities. At the jamming density ρJ there is a mixed-order phase transition in which a finite fraction of the particles become frozen, but the other particles may still diffuse throughout the system. At the caging density ρC > ρJ, the mobile particles are trapped in finite cages and no longer diffuse. The caging transition occurs due to a percolation transition of the unfrozen sites, and we numerically find that it is a continuous transition with the same critical exponents as random percolation.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 054051 |
| Journal | Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment |
| Volume | 2016 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| State | Published - 2016 |
Keywords
- Ergodicity breaking (theory)
- Jamming and packing
- Percolation problems (theory)
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
- Statistics and Probability
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty