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We demonstrate that hyperuniformity, the suppression of density fluctuations at large length scales, emerges generically from the interplay between conservation laws and non-equilibrium driving. The underlying mechanism for this emergence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Raphaël Maire , Ludivine Chaix

A spatial distribution is hyperuniform if it has local density fluctuations that vanish in the limit of long length scales. Hyperuniformity is a well known property of both crystals and quasicrystals. Of recent interest, however, is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-31 Jack R. Dale , James D. Sartor , R. Cameron Dennis , Eric I. Corwin

The concept of a hyperuniformity disorder length $h$ was recently introduced for analyzing volume fraction fluctuations for a set of measuring windows. This length permits a direct connection to the nature of disorder in the spatial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-20 D. J. Durian

We introduce the concept of a hyperuniformity disorder length that controls the variance of volume fraction fluctuations for randomly placed windows of fixed size. In particular, fluctuations are determined by the average number of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-18 A. T. Chieco , R. Dreyfus , D. J. Durian

We use vortex matter in type-II superconductors as a playground to study how different types of disorder affect the long wavelength density fluctuations of the system. We find that irrespective of the vortex-vortex interaction, in the case…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-06-21 Joaquín Puig , Jazmín Aragón Sánchez , Gladys Nieva , Alejandro B. Kolton , Yanina Fasano

In one dimension, any disorder is traditionally believed to localize all states. We show that this paradigm breaks down under hyperuniform disorder, which suppresses long-wavelength fluctuations and interpolates between random and periodic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-30 Junmo Jeon , Harukuni Ikeda , Shiro Sakai

Disordered many-particle hyperuniform systems are exotic amorphous states of matter that lie between crystals and liquids. Hyperuniform systems have attracted recent attention because they are endowed with novel transport and optical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-23 Zheng Ma , Salvatore Torquato

Disordered hyperuniform (DHU) states are recently discovered exotic states of condensed matter. DHU systems are similar to liquids or glasses in that they are statistically isotropic and lack conventional long-range translational and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-06 Duyu Chen , Houlong Zhuang , Mohan Chen , Pinshane Huang , Vojtech Vlcek , Yang Jiao

Hyperuniformity, the suppression of density fluctuations at large length scales, is observed across a wide variety of domains, from cosmology to condensed matter and biological systems. Although the standard definition of hyperuniformity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-07 Marco Salvalaglio , Dominic J. Skinner , Jörn Dunkel , Axel Voigt

The hyperuniformity concept provides a unified means to classify all perfect crystals, perfect quasicrystals, and exotic amorphous states of matter according to their capacity to suppress large-scale density fluctuations. While the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-27 Jaeuk Kim , Salvatore Torquato

Disordered hyperuniformity is a description of hidden correlations in point distributions revealed by an anomalous suppression in fluctuations of local density at various coarse-graining length scales. In the absorbing phase of models…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-24 Yuanjian Zheng , Anshul D. S. Parmar , Massimo Pica Ciamarra

Studies of random organization models of monodisperse spherical particles have shown that a hyperuniform state is achievable when the system goes through an absorbing phase transition to a critical state. Here we investigate to what extent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-20 Zheng Ma , Salvatore Torquato

Hyperuniform disorder is a type of correlated disorder characterized by vanishing spectral density at small wavevectors, making the configuration effectively homogeneous on long length scales. In photonics, hyperuniform disorder is…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-05 Zeyu Zhang , Koorosh Sadri , Brian Gould , Mikael Rechtsman

Materials featuring anomalous suppression of density fluctuations over large length scales are emerging systems known as disordered hyperuniform. The underlying hidden order renders them appealing for several applications, such as light…

Disordered hyperuniform many-body systems are exotic states of matter with novel optical, transport, and mechanical properties. These systems are characterized by an anomalous suppression of large-scale density fluctuations compared to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-05 Haina Wang , Rhine Samajdar , Salvatore Torquato

Hyperuniform many-body systems in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space are characterized by completely suppressed (normalized) infinite-wavelength density fluctuations, and appear to be endowed with novel exotic physical properties. In this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-09 Duyu Chen , Yu Zheng , Chia-Hao Lee , Sangmin Kang , Wenjuan Zhu , Houlong Zhuang , Pinshane Y. Huang , Yang Jiao

Hyperuniform systems are distinguished by an unusually strong suppression of large-scale density fluctuations and, consequently, display a high degree of uniformity at the largest length scales. In some cases, however, enhanced uniformity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-24 Carlo Vanoni , Paul J. Steinhardt , Salvatore Torquato

Disordered hyperuniform materials are an emerging class of exotic amorphous states of matter that endow them with singular physical properties. Here, we generalize the Fourier-space based numerical construction procedure for designing {\it…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-27 Wenlong Shi , David Keeney , Duyu Chen , Yang Jiao , Salvatore Torquato

Disordered hyperuniformity (DHU) is a recently discovered novel state of many-body systems that is characterized by vanishing normalized infinite-wavelength density fluctuations similar to a perfect crystal, yet possesses an amorphous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-27 Yang Jiao

Topological defects are fundamental to the collective dynamics of non-equilibrium systems and in active matter, mediating spontaneous flows, dynamic self-organization, and emergent pattern formation. Here, we reveal critical states in…