title: Jamming concepts in cold polymeric glasses.
abstract: The purpose of the present paper is to propose an idea to construct the volume function W for polymer glasses and calculate the volume of polymer glasses as a function of the compactivity X utilizing a statistical-mechanical method developed for semiflexible polymers. We also discuss the analogue for glasses of "tapping" experiments which show the validity of statistical mechanics and the entropy concept in powders.
authors.affiliation: Polymers and Colloids Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Koga
authors.forename: Sam F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Edwards