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We systematically map out the jamming transition of all 2D bidisperse mixtures of frictionless disks in the hard particle limit. The critical volume fraction, mean coordination number, number of rattlers, structural order parameters, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-03-30 D. J. Koeze , D. Vågberg , B. B. T. Tjoa , B. P. Tighe

In this note we study the uniqueness problem for collections of pennies and marbles. More generally, consider a collection of unit $d$-spheres that may touch but not overlap. Given the existence of such a collection, one may analyse the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Sean Dewar , Georg Grasegger , Kaie Kubjas , Fatemeh Mohammadi , Anthony Nixon

We have recently developed some simple continuum models of static granular media which display "fragile" behaviour: they predict that the medium is unable to support certain types of infinitesimal load (which we call "incompatible" loads)…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. Cates , J. P. Wittmer , J. -P. Bouchaud , P. Claudin

The interaction between local traits and global frameworks of mathematical objects has long endured as a central theme in various mathematical domains. A graph \(G\) is referred to as locally linear provided that the subgraph induced by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Feng Liu , Leilei Zhang

Geometry can be used to explain many properties commonly observed in real networks. It is therefore often assumed that real networks, especially those with high average local clustering, live in an underlying hidden geometric space.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-11 J. van der Kolk , M. Á. Serrano , M. Boguñá

The physics of complex systems stands to greatly benefit from the qualitative changes in data availability and advances in data-driven computational methods. Many of these systems can be represented by interacting degrees of freedom on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-27 Doruk Efe Gökmen , Sounak Biswas , Sebastian D. Huber , Zohar Ringel , Felix Flicker , Maciej Koch-Janusz

We numerically study the jamming transition of frictionless polydisperse spheres in three dimensions. We use an efficient thermalisation algorithm for the equilibrium hard sphere fluid and generate amorphous jammed packings over a range of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-16 Misaki Ozawa , Ludovic Berthier , Daniele Coslovich

We prove measurable analogues of Whitney's classical theorems on weak isomorphisms of finite graphs. In the setting of locally finite graphings, we introduce a notion of weak isomorphism as an edge-measure-preserving Borel bijection that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Márton Borbényi , Grigory Terlov , László Márton Tóth

The mechanical response of naturally abundant amorphous solids such as gels, jammed grains, and biological tissues are not described by the conventional paradigm of broken symmetry that defines crystalline elasticity. In contrast, the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-29 Jishnu N. Nampoothiri , Yinqiao Wang , Kabir Ramola , Jie Zhang , Subhro Bhattacharjee , Bulbul Chakraborty

We report calculations of the density of maximally random jamming (aka random close packing) of one-component and binary hard disc fluids. The theoretical structure used provides a common framework for description of the hard disc liquid to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-10-06 Xinliang Xu , Stuart A. Rice

We show for the first time that collectively jammed disordered packings of three-dimensional monodisperse frictionless hard spheres can be produced and tuned using a novel numerical protocol with packing density $\phi$ as low as 0.6. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-01-10 Yang Jiao , Frank H. Stillinger , Sal Torquato

The nature of randomness in disordered packings of frictional and frictionless spheres is investigated using theory and simulations of identical spherical grains. The entropy of the packings is defined through the force and volume ensemble…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 Christopher Briscoe , Chaoming Song , Ping Wang , Hernan A. Makse

Local sets, a graph structure invariant under local complementation, have been originally introduced in the context of quantum computing for the study of quantum entanglement within the so-called graph state formalism. A local set in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Nathan Claudet , Simon Perdrix

The postulate of the existence of a jamming phase diagram (Liu and Nagel, Nature 396, 21 EP (1998aa)) provides a theoretical basis for the classification of a wide range of amorphous solids (colloidal, molecular and emulsion glasses,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-04 Ruru Li , Daniel Lester

Jamming is a fundamental transition that governs the mechanical behavior of particulate media, including sand, foam and dense suspensions but also biological tissues: Upon compression, particulate media can change from freely flowing to a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-03-10 Zhaoyu Xie , Timothy J Atherton

We study the problem of deterministic approximate counting of matchings and independent sets in graphs of bounded connective constant. More generally, we consider the problem of evaluating the partition functions of the monomer-dimer model…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-10-10 Alistair Sinclair , Piyush Srivastava , Daniel Štefankovič , Yitong Yin

A fundamental theorem of Laman characterises when a bar-joint framework realised generically in the Euclidean plane admits a non-trivial continuous deformation of its vertices. This has recently been extended in two ways. Firstly to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Anthony Nixon , Bernd Schulze

An exact description of the complete jamming landscape is developed for a system of hard discs of diameter $\sigma$, confined between two lines separated by a distance $1+\sqrt{3/4} < H/\sigma < 2$. By considering all possible local packing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 S. S. Ashwin , Richard k. Bowles

We propose a framework for the connection between local symmetries of discrete Hamiltonians and the design of compact localized states. Such compact localized states are used for the creation of tunable, local symmetry-induced bound states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-09 M. Röntgen , C. V. Morfonios , P. Schmelcher

We prove that a planar graph is generically rigid in the plane if and only if it can be embedded as a pseudo-triangulation. This generalizes the main result of math.CO/0307347 which treats the minimally generically rigid case. The proof…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-24 David Orden , Francisco Santos , Brigitte Servatius , Herman Servatius