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In this work we present a study on the characterization of ordered and disordered hyperuniform point distributions on spherical surfaces. In spite of the extensive literature on disordered hyperuniform systems in Euclidean geometries, to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-08-14 Ariel G. Meyra , Guillermo J. Zarragoicoechea , Alberto. L. Maltz , Enrique Lomba , 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

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

Dense, disordered packings of particles are useful models of low-temperature amorphous phases of matter, biological systems, granular media, and colloidal systems. The study of dense packings of nonspherical particles enables one to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-09 Charles Emmett Maher , Frank H. Stillinger , Salvatore Torquato

We numerically study the structure of the interactions occurring in three-dimensional systems of hard spheres at jamming, focusing on the large-scale behavior. Given the fundamental role they play in the configuration of jammed packings, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-15 Paolo Rissone , Eric I. Corwin , Giorgio Parisi

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

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 structural properties of static, jammed packings of monodisperse spheres in the vicinity of the jamming transition are investigated using large-scale computer simulations. At small wavenumber $k$, we argue that the anomalous behavior in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-08-02 Leonardo E. Silbert , Moises Silbert

Hyperuniformity refers to the suppression of density fluctuations at large scales. Typical for ordered systems, this property also emerges in several disordered physical and biological systems, where it is particularly relevant to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-24 Abel H. G. Milor , Marco Salvalaglio

A jammed packing of frictionless spheres at zero temperature is perfectly specified by the network of contact forces from which mechanical properties can be derived. However, we can alternatively consider a packing as a geometric structure,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-11-26 Peter K. Morse , Eric I. Corwin

Disordered hyperuniform dispersions are exotic amorphous two-phase materials characterized by an anomalous suppression of long-wavelength volume-fraction fluctuations, endowing them with novel physical properties. While such unusual…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-12 Jaeuk Kim , Salvatore Torquato

Disordered hyperuniform systems are exotic states of matter that completely suppress large-scale density fluctuations like crystals, and yet possess no Bragg peaks similar to liquids or glasses. Such systems have been discovered in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-10 Duyu Chen , Yu Zheng , Yang Jiao

We numerically simulate mechanically stable packings of soft-core, frictionless, bidisperse disks in two dimensions, above the jamming packing fraction phi_J. For configurations with a fixed isotropic global stress tensor, we investigate…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-12-23 Yegang Wu , Peter Olsson , S. Teitel

We study properties of jammed packings of frictionless spheres over a wide range of volume fractions. There exists a crossover volume fraction which separates deeply jammed solids from marginally jammed solids. In deeply jammed solids, all…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-25 Cang Zhao , Kaiwen Tian , Ning Xu

Jamming is a geometric phase transition occurring in dense particle systems in the absence of temperature. We use computer simulations to analyse the effect of thermal fluctuations on several signatures of the transition. We show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-16 Atsushi Ikeda , Ludovic Berthier

Particle suspensions, present in many natural and industrial settings, typically contain aggregates or other microstructures that can complicate macroscopic flow behaviors and damage processing equipment. Recent work found that applying…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-31 Jikai Wang , J. M. Schwarz , Joseph D. Paulsen

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

The concept of hyperuniformity has been a useful tool in the study of large-scale density fluctuations in systems ranging across the natural and mathematical sciences. One can rank a large class of hyperuniform systems by their ability to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-20 Timothy M. Middlemas , Frank H. Stillinger , Salvatore Torquato

Geometrical properties of two-dimensional mixtures near the jamming transition point are numerically investigated using harmonic particles under mechanical training. The configurations generated by the quasi-static compression and…

In the first paper of this series, we introduced Voronoi correlation functions to characterize the structure of maximally random jammed (MRJ) sphere packings across length scales. In the present paper, we determine a variety of correlation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-14 Michael A. Klatt , Salvatore Torquato