Nonuniversality of density and disorder in jammed sphere packings

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Jiao, Yang ^a   Stillinger, Frank H ^b   Torquato, Salvatore ^a,b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-DENSITY; DENSITY RANGE; FREQUENCY OF OCCURRENCES; HARD SPHERES; JAMMED PACKINGS; MAXIMALLY RANDOM JAMMED STATE; MONODISPERSE; NARROW DISTRIBUTION; NONUNIVERSALITY; PACKING DENSITY; PAIR CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; SPHERE PACKINGS; STATE DENSITIES;

SPHERES;

JAMMING;

EID: 78751560009     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3524489     Document Type: Article

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