The ideal glass transition of Hard Spheres
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-11 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
We use the replica method to study the ideal glass transition of a liquid of identical Hard Spheres. We obtain estimates of the configurational entropy in the liquid phase, of the Kauzmann packing fraction, in the range 0.58--0.62, and of the random close packing density, in the range 0.64--0.67, depending on the approximation we use for the equation of state of the liquid. We also compute the pair correlation function in the glassy states (i.e., dense amorphous packings) and we find that the mean coordination number at random close packing is equal to 6. All these results compare well with numerical simulations and with other existing theories.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0506445,
title = {The ideal glass transition of Hard Spheres},
author = {G. Parisi and F. Zamponi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0506445},
year = {2009}
}
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13 pages, 8 figures