Random very loose packings

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Ciamarra, Massimo Pica ^a,b   Coniglio, Antonio ^b,c  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; GRANULAR MATERIALS; LASERS; MECHANICS; SPEED; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; TITRATION;

GRANULAR ASSEMBLIES; HIGH-DENSITY; LOW DENSITY; LOWER BOUNDS; MECHANICALLY STABLE; NEGATIVE TEMPERATURES; STATIC GRANULAR MATERIALS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 52149097112     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.128001     Document Type: Article

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