Jamming as a Multicritical Point
Danilo B. Liarte, Xiaoming Mao, Olaf Stenull, T. C. Lubensky · Physical Review Letters · 2019
The discontinuous jump in the bulk modulus B at the jamming transition is a consequence of the formation of a critical contact network of spheres that resists compression. We introduce lattice models with underlying undercoordinated compression-resistant spring lattices to which next-nearest-neighbor springs can be added. In these models, the jamming transition emerges as a kind of multicritical point terminating a line of rigidity-percolation transitions. Replacing the undercoordinated lattices with the critical network at jamming yields a faithful description of jamming and its relation to rigidity percolation.