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American Physical Society, Physical review E: Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics, 4(55), p. 3962-3969, 1997
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Frustration and slow dynamics of granular packings
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Abstract
Density relaxation in a frustrated lattice gas subject to gravity and vibrations is explored via Monte Carlo simulations. A comparison to some recent experimental results on compaction of granular media gives good agreement, and interesting predictions are possible.