Dense sphere packings from optimized correlation functions

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Hopkins, Adam B ^a   Stillinger, Frank H ^a   Torquato, Salvatore ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE NUMBERS; CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; DEGREE OF ORDERS; DISORDERED SPHERE PACKINGS; ELEMENTARY FUNCTIONS; HARD SPHERES; JAMMED PACKINGS; OPTIMIZATION METHODS; PACKING FRACTIONS; PAIR-CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; REALIZABILITY CONDITIONS; SALIENT FEATURES; SMOOTH FUNCTIONS; SPHERE PACKINGS; THREE DIMENSIONS;

CHANNEL CODING; ISOTOPES; JAMMING; SPHERES;

PACKING;

EID: 65249123106     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.031123     Document Type: Article

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