Jamming in two-dimensional packings

Sam Meyer, Chaoming Song, Yuliang Jin, Kun Wang and Hernán A. Makse

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2010, vol. 389, issue 22, 5137-5144

Abstract: We investigate the existence of random close and random loose packing limits in two-dimensional packings of monodisperse hard disks. A statistical mechanics approach–based on several approximations to predict the probability distribution of volumes–suggests the existence of the limiting densities of the jammed packings according to their coordination number and compactivity. This result has implications for the understanding of disordered states in the disk packing problem as well as the existence of a putative glass transition in two-dimensional systems.

Keywords: Random packings; Volume function; Disordered system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2010.07.030

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