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Kinetics of Deposition of Oriented Superdisks

Soft Condensed Matter 2015-06-16 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We use numerical Monte Carlo simulation to study kinetics of deposition of oriented superdisks, bounded by the Lame curves of the form x2p+y2p=1|x|^{2p}+|y|^{2p}=1, on regular planar substrate. It was recently shown that the maximum packing density, as well as jamming density ρJ\rho_{J}, exhibit discontinuous derivative at p=0.5p=0.5, when the shape changes from convex to concave form. By careful examination of the late-stage approach to the jamming limit, we find that the leading term in temporal development is also nonanalytic at p=0.5p=0.5, and offer heuristic excluded-area arguments for this behavior.

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@article{arxiv.1305.6120,
  title  = {Kinetics of Deposition of Oriented Superdisks},
  author = {B. N. Aleksić and N. M. Švrakić and M. Belić},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.6120},
  year   = {2015}
}