Polytetrahedral nature of the dense disordered packings of hard spheres

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 23, 2007, Pages

  Anikeenko, A V ^a   Medvedev, N N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL KINETICS AND COMBUSTION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DENSIFICATION;

BERNALS LIMITING DENSITY; PACKING FRACTION; POLYTETRAHEDRAL NATURE;

SPHERES;

EID: 34547244057     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.235504     Document Type: Article

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