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Angle-Preserving Transformations Give Rigidity Transitions a New Twist

    Jen Schwarz1 and Silke Henkes2

    • 1Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
    • 2Institute of Physics, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands

• Physics 17, 1

New theoretical work explores the onset of rigidity in granular materials and other disordered systems by mapping out the edges of rigid regions.

S. Henkes/Leiden University; J. Schwarz/Syracuse University; APS/A. Stonebraker
Figure 1: The interfaces of rigid clusters in an amorphous system evolve according to a framework known as Schramm-Loewner theory. At the rigidification transition, these…

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