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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Jamming as a topological satisfiability transition with contact number hyperuniformity and criticality.

Jin Shang, Yinqiao Wang, Deng Pan, Yuliang Jin, Jie Zhang

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Jin ShangSchool of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6981-502X
Yinqiao WangSchool of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0849-9240
Deng PanInstitute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4023-2506
Yuliang JinInstitute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8310-4582
Jie ZhangSchool of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1326-8941

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Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) KGFZD-145-22-13Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) ZDBS-LY-7017MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 11935002MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 11974238MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 11974361MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 12047503MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 12161141007MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 12274291MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 12404290MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 12534008Shanghai Municipal Education Commission () 2021-01-07-00-02-E00138UCAS | Wenzhou Institute of Biomaterials and Engineering (WIBE) WIUCASICTP2022
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Abstract

The jamming transition between flow and amorphous-solid states exhibits paradoxical properties characterized by hyperuniformity (suppressed spatial fluctuations) and criticality (hyperfluctuations), whose origin remains unclear. Here, we model the jamming transition by a topological satisfiability transition in a minimum network model with simultaneously hyperuniform distributions of contacts, diverging length scales and scale-free clusters. We show that these phenomena stem from isostaticity and mechanical stability: The former imposes a global equality, and the latter local inequalities on arbitrary subsystems. This dual constraint bounds contact number fluctuations from both above and below, limiting them to scale with the surface area. The hyperuniform and critical exponents of the network model align with those of frictionless jamming, suggesting a universality class of nonequilibrium phase transitions. Our results provide a minimal, dynamics-independent framework for jamming criticality and hyperuniformity in disordered systems.

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contact numbercriticalityhyperuniformityjamming

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PMID41915750
PMCPMC13056134

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