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We present the first study of disordered jammed hard-sphere packings in four-, five- and six-dimensional Euclidean spaces. Using a collision-driven packing generation algorithm, we obtain the first estimates for the packing fractions of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Skoge , A. Donev , F. H. Stillinger , S. Torquato

We improve the previously best known upper bounds on the sizes of $\theta$-spherical codes for every $\theta<\theta^*\approx 62.997^{\circ}$ at least by a factor of $0.4325$, in sufficiently high dimensions. Furthermore, for sphere packing…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Naser T. Sardari , Masoud Zargar

The densest local packings of N three-dimensional identical nonoverlapping spheres within a radius Rmin(N) of a fixed central sphere of the same size are obtained for selected values of N up to N = 1054. In the predecessor to this paper…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Adam B. Hopkins , Frank H. Stillinger , Salvatore Torquato

We consider a high-dimensional random constrained optimization problem in which a set of binary variables is subjected to a linear system of equations. The cost function is a simple linear cost, measuring the Hamming distance with respect…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-11-23 Alfredo Braunstein , Louise Budzynski , Stefano Crotti , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

In this paper we study the problem of hyperball (hypersphere) packings in $3$-dimensional hyperbolic space. We introduce a new definition of the non-compact saturated ball packings and describe to each saturated hyperball packing, a new…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-14 Jenő Szirmai

Questions surrounding the spatial disposition of particles in various condensed-matter systems continue to pose many theoretical challenges. This paper explores the geometric availability of amorphous many-particle configurations that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Torquato , F. H. Stillinger

We consider the problem of covering hypersphere by a set of spherical hypercaps. This sort of problem has numerous practical applications such as error correcting codes and reverse k-nearest neighbor problem. Using the reduction of non…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Marko D. Petkovic , Dragoljub Pokrajac , Longin Jan Latecki

Given a Zariski-dense, discrete group, $\Gamma$, of isometries acting on $(n + 1)$-dimensional hyperbolic space, we use spectral methods to obtain a sharp asymptotic formula for the growth rate of certain $\Gamma$-orbits. In particular,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Alex Kontorovich , Christopher Lutsko

In a recent paper (cond-mat/0506445) we derived an expression for the replicated free energy of a liquid of hard spheres based on the HNC free energy functional. An approximate equation of state for the glass and an estimate of the random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Parisi , F. Zamponi

We develop a simple analytical theory that relates dense sphere packings in a cylinder to corresponding disk packings on its surface. It applies for ratios R=D/d (where d and D are the diameters of the hard spheres and the bounding…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Adil Mughal , Ho Kei Chan , Denis Weaire

Studies of random close packing of spheres have advanced our knowledge about the structure of systems such as liquids, glasses, emulsions, granular media, and amorphous solids. When these systems are confined their structural properties…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-12-17 Kenneth W. Desmond , Eric R. Weeks

We give an asymptotic approximation scheme (APTAS) for the problem of packing a set of circles into a minimum number of unit square bins. To obtain rational solutions, we use augmented bins of height $1+\gamma$, for some arbitrarily small…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Flávio K. Miyazawa , Lehilton L. C. Pedrosa , Rafael C. S. Schouery , Maxim Sviridenko , Yoshiko Wakabayashi

We have studied the packing of congruent disks on a spherical cap, for caps of different size and number of disks, $N$. This problem has been considered before only in the limit cases of circle packing inside a circle and on a sphere…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-08-23 Paolo Amore

The classical sphere packing problem asks for the best (infinite) arrangement of non-overlapping unit balls which cover as much space as possible. We define a generalized version of the problem, where we allow each ball a limited amount of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-01-03 Mabel Iglesias-Ham , Michael Kerber , Caroline Uhler

We study the relationship between local and global density for sphere packings, and in particular the convergence of packing densities in large, compact regions to the Euclidean limit. We axiomatize key properties of sphere packing bounds…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Henry Cohn , Andrew Salmon

Sphere packing, Hilbert's eighteenth problem, asks for the densest arrangement of congruent spheres in n-dimensional Euclidean space. Although relevant to areas such as cryptography, crystallography, and medical imaging, the problem remains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Rasul Tutunov , Alexandre Maraval , Antoine Grosnit , Xihan Li , Jun Wang , Haitham Bou-Ammar

We study dense packings of a large number of congruent non-overlapping circles inside a square by looking for configurations which maximize the packing density, defined as the ratio between the area occupied by the disks and the area of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-23 Paolo Amore , Tenoch Morales

The most efficient way to pack equally sized spheres isotropically in 3D is known as the random close packed state, which provides a starting point for many approximations in physics and engineering. However, the particle size distribution…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-05 Robert S. Farr , Robert D. Groot

Using computed x-ray tomography we determine the three dimensional (3d) structure of binary hard sphere mixtures as a function of composition and size ratio of the particles, q. Using a recently introduced four-point correlation function we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-15 Houfei Yuan , Zhen Zhang , Walter Kob , Yujie Wang

The problem of packing equal circles in a circle is a classic and famous packing problem, which is well-studied in academia and has a variety of applications in industry. This problem is computationally challenging, and researchers mainly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Jianrong Zhou , Kun He , Jiongzhi Zheng , Chu-Min Li