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Absence of hyperuniformity in amorphous hard-sphere packings of nonvanishing complexity

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2018-08-21 v2 Soft Condensed Matter Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We relate the structure factor S(k0)S(\mathbf{k} \to \mathbf{0}) in a system of jammed hard spheres of number density ρ\rho to its complexity per particle Σ(ρ)\Sigma(\rho) by the formula S(k0)=1/[ρ2Σ(ρ)+2ρΣ(ρ)]S(\mathbf{k} \to \mathbf{0})=-1/ [\rho^2\Sigma''(\rho)+2\rho\Sigma'(\rho)]. We have verified this formula for the case of jammed disks in a narrow channel, for which it is possible to find Σ(ρ)\Sigma(\rho) and S(k)S(\mathbf{k}) analytically. Hyperuniformity, which is the vanishing of S(k0)S(\mathbf{k} \to \mathbf{0}), will therefore not occur if the complexity is nonzero. An example is given of a jammed state of hard disks in a narrow channel which is hyperuniform when generated by dynamical rules that produce a non-extensive complexity.

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@article{arxiv.1804.04927,
  title  = {Absence of hyperuniformity in amorphous hard-sphere packings of nonvanishing complexity},
  author = {M. J. Godfrey and M. A. Moore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.04927},
  year   = {2018}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures