Random Loose Packing in Granular Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-13 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We introduce and simulate a two dimensional probabilistic model of granular matter at vanishing pressure. The model exhibits a perfectly sharp random loose packing density, a phenomenon that should be verifiable for real granular matter.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0808.1708,
title = {Random Loose Packing in Granular Matter},
author = {David Aristoff and Charles Radin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.1708},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
27 pages, 13 figures. Future versions may be found at: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/radin/papers.html