Twenty-five years after the proposal of a jamming phase diagram, Andrea Liu and Sidney Nagel discuss how linking jammed granular materials with glasses helps us understand the physics of many systems.
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The authors are grateful to many collaborators over the years who have helped develop the theory of the jamming transition and the marginally jammed state as well as to all of those who have expanded the concept of jamming into a productive framework encompassing many phenomena displayed by physical and biological matter. The authors are indebted to the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation for their generous and sustaining support of different aspects of the authors’ work.
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Liu, A.J., Nagel, S.R. Twenty-five years of the jamming phase diagram. Nat Rev Phys 5, 630–631 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-023-00661-5
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