Soft matter from a geometric perspective
A brief
introduction
to various forms of soft matter, with emphasis on the geometry of
sphere packing
Granular Matter
Experiments and a model of dilatancy onset:
M. Schröter, S. Nägle, C. Radin and H.L. Swinney,
EPL 78 (2007), 44004
J.-F. Métayer, D.J. Suntrup III, C. Radin, H.L. Swinney and
M. Schröter,
EPL 93(2011), 64003
D. Aristoff and C. Radin,
J. Stat. Phys. 143(2011), 215-225
Experiment and theory of random close packing:
C. Radin,
J. Stat. Phys. 131(2008) 567-573
D. Aristoff and C. Radin,
J. Math. Phys. 51 (2010) 113302
F. Rietz, C. Radin, H. Swinney and M. Schröter,
Nucleation in sheared granular matter,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 055701 (2018)
C. Radin and H. Swinney,
Phases of granular matter,
J. Stat. Phys. 175(2019) 542-553
W. Jin, C. O'Hern, C. Radin, M. Shattuck and H.L. Swinney,
Homogeneous crystallization in cyclically sheared frictionless grains,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 258003 (2020)
C. Radin
Equivalence between random close packing in granular matter and
freezing in the hard sphere model
arxiv:2105.09982.
A theory of random loose packing:
Some acoustic measurements:
Crumpled Sheets
Confined sheets, wires, polymers: