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American Institute of Physics, AIP Conference Proceedings, 2013

DOI: 10.1063/1.4794565

Royal Society of Chemistry, Soft Matter, 40(9), p. 9557, 2013

DOI: 10.1039/c3sm51505b

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Density anomalies and high-order jamming crossovers

Journal article published in 2013 by Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Peter Sollich
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Abstract

We demonstrate the existence of high--order jamming crossovers in systems of particles with repulsive contact interactions, which originate from the collapse of successive coordination shells. At zero temperature, these crossovers induce an anomalous behavior of the bulk modulus, which varies non--monotonically with the density, while at finite temperature they induce density anomalies consisting in an increased diffusivity upon isothermal compression and in a negative thermal expansion coefficient. We rationalize the dependence of these crossovers on the softness of the interaction potential, and relate the jamming crossovers and the anomalous diffusivity through the investigation of the vibrational spectrum.