Repository logo

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Infoscience

  • English
  • French
Log In
  1. Home
  2. Academic and Research Output
  3. Journal articles
  4. Heat transport in model jammed solids
 
research article

Heat transport in model jammed solids

Vitelli, Vincenzo
•
Xu, Ning
•
Wyart, Matthieu  
Show more
2010
Physical Review E

We calculate numerically the normal modes of vibrations in three-dimensional jammed packings of soft spheres as a function of the packing fraction and obtain the energy diffusivity, a spectral measure of transport that controls sound propagation and thermal conductivity. The crossover frequency between weak and strong phonon scattering is controlled by the coordination and shifts to zero as the system is decompressed toward the critical packing fraction at which rigidity is lost. We present a scaling analysis that relates the packing fraction dependence of the crossover frequency to the anomalous scaling of the shear modulus with compression. Below the crossover, the diffusivity displays a power-law divergence with inverse frequency consistent with Rayleigh law, which suggests that the vibrational modes are primarily transverse waves, weakly scattered by disorder. Above it, a large number of modes appear whose diffusivity plateaus at a nearly constant value before dropping to zero above the localization frequency. The thermal conductivity of a marginally jammed solid just above the rigidity threshold is calculated and related to the one measured experimentally at room temperature for most glasses. © 2010 The American Physical Society.

  • Details
  • Metrics
Type
research article
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevE.81.021301
Author(s)
Vitelli, Vincenzo
Xu, Ning
Wyart, Matthieu  
Liu, Andrea J.
Nagel, Sidney R.
Date Issued

2010

Published in
Physical Review E
Volume

81

Issue

2

Article Number

021301

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

OTHER

EPFL units
PCSL  
Available on Infoscience
October 18, 2016
Use this identifier to reference this record
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/130518
Logo EPFL, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
  • Contact
  • infoscience@epfl.ch

  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on LinkedIn
  • Follow us on X
  • Follow us on Youtube
AccessibilityLegal noticePrivacy policyCookie settingsEnd User AgreementGet helpFeedback

Infoscience is a service managed and provided by the Library and IT Services of EPFL. © EPFL, tous droits réservés