Distinctive features arising in maximally random jammed packings of superballs

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

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Jiao, Y ^a   Stillinger, F H ^b   Torquato, S ^a,b,c  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS PHASIS; AVERAGE NUMBERS; CIRCULAR DISK; CUBIC SYMMETRY; DEFORMATION PARAMETER; DISTINCTIVE FEATURES; GRANULAR MEDIA; HARD PARTICLES; HARD-PARTICLE PACKINGS; JAMMED PACKINGS; LOCAL COORDINATION; LOW TEMPERATURES; MECHANICALLY STABLE; MONO-DISPERSED; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NON-SPHERICAL; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLE; NUMBER OF DEGREES OF FREEDOM; ORDER PARAMETER; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERS; PACKING CONFIGURATION; RANDOM PACKING; ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIES;

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); JAMMING; POLYDISPERSITY; SPHERES;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

EID: 77951141726     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.041304     Document Type: Article

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