A note on rattlers in amorphous packings of binary mixtures of hard spheres
Soft Condensed Matter
2010-05-24 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
It has been recently pointed out by Farr and Groot (arXiv:0912.0852) and by Kyrylyuk and Philipse (Prog. Colloid Polym. Sci., 2010, in press) that our theoretical result for the jamming density of a binary mixture of hard spheres (arXiv:0903.5099) apparently violates an upper bound that is obtained by considering the limit where the diameter ratio r = DA/DB goes to infinity. We believe that this apparent contradiction is the consequence of a misunderstanding, which we try to clarify here.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1002.4761,
title = {A note on rattlers in amorphous packings of binary mixtures of hard spheres},
author = {I. Biazzo and F. Caltagirone and G. Parisi and F. Zamponi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.4761},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
2 pages, 2 figures; final version published on J.Chem.Phys