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We present a technique for obtaining an effective packing fraction for discontinuous shear thickening suspensions near a critical point. It uses a measurable quantity that diverges at the critical point -- in this case the inverse of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-17 Rijan Maharjan , Eric Brown

For any black-box model, conformal prediction (CP) returns prediction sets guaranteed to include the true label with high adjustable probability. Robust CP (RCP) extends the guarantee to the worst case noise up to a pre-defined magnitude.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Soroush H. Zargarbashi , Mohammad Sadegh Akhondzadeh , Aleksandar Bojchevski

We prove a lower bound on the entropy of sphere packings of $\mathbb R^d$ of density $\Theta(d \cdot 2^{-d})$. The entropy measures how plentiful such packings are, and our result is significantly stronger than the trivial lower bound that…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-04 Matthew Jenssen , Felix Joos , Will Perkins

We derive the exact nonequilibrium steady state of a run-and-tumble particle (RTP) in $d$ dimensions confined in an isotropic harmonic trap $V(\mathbf r)=\mu r^{2}/2$, with $r=\|\mathbf r\|$. Rotational invariance reduces the problem to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-10 Mathis Guéneau , Satya N. Majumdar , Grégory Schehr

We experimentally probe the vicinity of the jamming point J, located at a density $\phi$ corresponding to random close packing ($\phi_{rcp} = 0.842$), in two dimensional, bidisperse packings of foam bubbles. We vary the density of the foam…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Gijs Katgert , Martin van Hecke

We give sufficient conditions for the number rigidity of a translation invariant or periodic point process on $\mathbb{R}^d$, where $d=1,2$. That is, the probability distribution of the number of particles in a bounded domain $\Lambda…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Subhro Ghosh , Joel Lebowitz

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

The random packing fraction of binary particles in D-dimensional Euclidean space R^D is studied using a geometric approach. First, the binary packing fraction of assemblies with small size difference are studied, using the excluded volume…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-13 H. J. H. Brouwers

In this work, we consider the problem of building distribution-free prediction intervals with finite-sample conditional coverage guarantees. Conformal prediction (CP) is an increasingly popular framework for building such intervals with…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-29 Rohan Hore , Rina Foygel Barber

Random sequential adsorption (RSA) of various two dimensional objects is studied in order to find a shape which maximizes the saturated packing fraction. This investigation was begun in our previous paper [Cie\'sla et al., Phys. Chem. Chem.…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-02 Michał Cieśla , Grzegorz Pająk , Robert M. Ziff

The range closest-pair (RCP) problem is the range-search version of the classical closest-pair problem, which aims to store a given dataset of points in some data structure such that when a query range $X$ is specified, the closest pair of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Jie Xue

Random sequential addition (RSA) time-dependent packing process, in which congruent hard hyperspheres are randomly and sequentially placed into a system without interparticle overlap, is a useful packing model to study disorder in high…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-21 G. Zhang , S. Torquato

We study, via the replica method of disordered systems, the packing problem of hard-spheres with a square-well attractive potential when the space dimensionality, d, becomes infinitely large. The phase diagram of the system exhibits…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-12-17 Mauro Sellitto , Francesco Zamponi

Motivated by the relation between particle shape and packing, we measure the volume fraction $\phi$ occupied by the Platonic solids which are a class of polyhedron with congruent sides, vertices and dihedral angles. Tetrahedron, cube,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jessica Baker , Arshad Kudrolli

It has been shown recently that predictions from Mode-Coupling Theory for the glass transition of hard-spheres become increasingly bad when dimensionality increases, whereas replica theory predicts a correct scaling. Nevertheless if one…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-27 Hugo Jacquin , Francesco Zamponi

The local structure of disordered jammed packings of monodisperse spheres without friction, generated by the Lubachevsky-Stillinger algorithm, is studied for packing fractions above and below 64%. The structural similarity of the particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Sebastian C. Kapfer , Walter Mickel , Klaus Mecke , Gerd E. Schröder-Turk

Hard spheres are ubiquitous in condensed matter: they have been used as models for liquids, crystals, colloidal systems, granular systems, and powders. Packings of hard spheres are of even wider interest, as they are related to important…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-13 Giorgio Parisi , Francesco Zamponi

A cloud scheduler packs tasks onto machines with contradictory goals of (1) using the machines as efficiently as possible while (2) avoiding overloading that might result in CPU throttling or out-of-memory errors. We take a stochastic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Tomasz Kanas , Krzysztof Rzadca

Range closest-pair (RCP) search is a range-search variant of the classical closest-pair problem, which aims to store a given set $S$ of points into some space-efficient data structure such that when a query range $Q$ is specified, the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Timothy M. Chan , Saladi Rahul , Jie Xue

Jamming occurs in granular materials, as well as in emulsions, dense suspensions, and other amorphous, particulate systems. When the packing fraction $\phi$, defined as the ratio of particle volume to system volume, is increased past a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-09-11 Abram H. Clark