Force relaxation in the q-model for granular media

DOI10.1023/A:1020442026840MaRDI QIDQ1850883zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jacco H. Snoeijer, J. M. J. van Leeuwen

Publication date 15 December 2002

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0110230

zbMATH Keywords

latticeasymptotic modes of decaydiffusion of correlationsshort-range correlated initial distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B21) Granularity (74E20)

Abstract: We study the relaxation of force distributions in the q-model, assuming a uniform q-distribution. We show that "diffusion of correlations" makes this relaxation very slow. On a d-dimensional lattice, the asymptotic state is approached as a diffusion process in d-1 dimensions. Therefore the relaxation goes as the inverse square root of depth for d=2, and the inverse depth for d=3. Furthermore, we derive asymptotic modes of decay, along which an arbitrary short--range correlated initial distribution will decay towards the stationary state.

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