Dense and nearly jammed random packings of freely jointed chains of tangent hard spheres

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Karayiannis, N Ch ^a   Laso, Manuel ^a  

^a Polytechnic University of Madrid   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VOLUME FRACTION;

COORDINATION SHELLS; MAXIMALLY RANDOM JAMMED (MRJ); RADIAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; RANDOM PACKINGS;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 38949188548     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.050602     Document Type: Article

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