Contact percolation transition in athermal particulate systems.

Tianqi Shen,1 Corey S. O’Hern,1,2 and M. D. Shattuck3 1Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8120, USA 2Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8286, USA 3Benjamin Levich Institute and Physics Department, The City College of the City University of New York, New York, New York 10031, USA (Received 3 October 2011; revised manuscript received 11 November 2011; published 27 January 2012)