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A new kind of phase transition?

Nature Physics volume 3, pages 222–223 (2007)Cite this article

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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Figure 1: Dynamic heterogeneity in a 3D glass-forming binary mixture.

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