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Nature Physics 3, 222 - 223 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphys580

Jamming: A new kind of phase transition?

Giulio Biroli1

  1. Giulio Biroli is in the Service de Physique Théorique of CEA Saclay, Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France. e-mail: giulio.biroli@cea.fr

Motion in assemblies of grains jams at high density and low drive. On approaching the jamming transition, the dynamics becomes increasingly spatially heterogeneous, and strongly reminiscent of the behaviour of glass-forming liquids.

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