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 in -dimensional Euclidean space , 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