Instabilities of Jammed Packings of Frictionless Spheres Under Load
Instabilities of Jammed Packings of Frictionless Spheres Under Load
We consider the contribution to the density of vibrational states and the distribution of energy barrier heights of incipient instabilities in a glass modeled by a jammed packing of spheres. On approaching an instability, the frequency of a normal mode and the height of the energy barrier to cross into …