Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

Characterizing rare fluctuations in soft particulate flows

  • S.H.E. Rahbari,
  • A.A. Saberi,
  • Hyunggyu Park,
  • J. Vollmer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00022-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Soft particulate flows such as granular media are prone to fluctuations like jamming and avalanches. Here Rahbari et al. consider the statistics of rare fluctuations to identify an effective temperature which, unlike previous ones, is valid for packing fractions both near and far from the jamming point.