Image of a highly compressed state of photoelastic disks. The experiment confirms the existence of a critical jamming transition in real granular materials.

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Jamming Transition in Granular Systems
T. S. Majmudar, M. Sperl, S. Luding, and R. P. Behringer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 058001 (2007)

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