ABSTRACT
Jamming processes, which exhibit non-equilibrium transitions from a fluid-like to a solid-like state, are characterized solely by the sudden arrest of the particle dynamics (Liu and Nagel 1998; Trappe et al. 2001; Robertson and Wang 2005; Biroli 2007). This arrest may happen either due to the crowding of non-interacting particles at high loadings or due to the presence of strong attractive (repulsive) interactions between the particles at low loadings. Jamming processes can occur in a variety of systems of diverse characteristic length scales, e.g. molecular structures, colloidal suspensions, polymer-filler composites, granular materials, and even automobile traffic (Liu and Nagel 1998).
