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We show that soft spheres interacting with a linear ramp potential whenovercompressed beyond the jamming point fall in an amorphous solid phase whichis critical, mechanically marginally stable and share many features with thejamming point itself. In the whole phase, the relevant local minima of thepotential energy landscape display an isostatic contact network of perfectlytouching spheres whose statistics is controlled by an infinite lengthscale.Excitations around such energy minima are non-linear, system spanning, andcharacterized by a set of non-trivial critical exponents. We perform numericalsimulations to measure their values and show that, while they coincide, withinnumerical precision, with the critical exponents appearing at jamming, thenature of the corresponding excitations is richer. Therefore, linear softspheres appear as a novel class of finite dimensional systems thatself-organize into new, critical, marginally stable, states.

Critical energy landscape of linear soft spheres