The Jamming Transition

Abstract

In Chap. 2 we presented a rather broad overview of renowned theories about the glass transition. In the last decades, the study of glasses at low temperature has also attracted significant interest, both from a theoretical and an experimental point of view [29, 39, 40, 42]. This is motivated by the fact that a different solidity transition, the jamming transition, can be observed in hard spheres and in many other out-of-equilibrium systems, such as foams, emulsions, granular matter.