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Hyperuniform long-range correlations are a signature of disordered jammed hard-particle packings

Statistical Mechanics 2015-05-19 v2

Abstract

We show that quasi-long-range (QLR) pair correlations that decay asymptotically with scaling r(d+1)r^{-(d+1)} in dd-dimensional Euclidean space Rd\mathbb{R}^d, trademarks of certain quantum systems and cosmological structures, are a universal signature of maximally random jammed (MRJ) hard-particle packings. We introduce a novel hyperuniformity descriptor in MRJ packings by studying local-volume-fraction fluctuations and show that infinite-wavelength fluctuations vanish even for packings with size- and shape-distributions. Special void statistics induce hyperuniformity and QLR pair correlations.

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@article{arxiv.1008.2548,
  title  = {Hyperuniform long-range correlations are a signature of disordered jammed hard-particle packings},
  author = {Chase E. Zachary and Yang Jiao and Salvatore Torquato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.2548},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, 3 figures; changes to figures and text based on review process; accepted for publication at Phys. Rev. Lett