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Advancements in materials design and manufacturing have allowed for the production of ordered and disordered metamaterials with diverse and novel properties. Hyperuniform two-phase heterogeneous materials, which anomalously suppress density…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-27 Charles Emmett Maher , Katherine A. Newhall

We investigate the short, medium, and long-range structure of soft disk configurations for a wide range of area fractions and simulation protocols by converting the real-space spectrum of volume fraction fluctuations for windows of width…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-24 A. T. Chieco , M. Zu , A. J. Liu , N. Xu , D. J. Durian

We analyze the large scale structure and fluctuations of jammed packings of size disperse spheres, produced in a granular experiment as well as numerically. While the structure factor of the packings reveals no unusual behavior for small…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-06-01 Ludovic Berthier , Pinaki Chaudhuri , Corentin Coulais , Olivier Dauchot , Peter Sollich

We study the vibrational properties near a free surface of disordered spring networks derived from jammed sphere packings. In bulk systems, without surfaces, it is well understood that such systems have a plateau in the density of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-03-26 Daniel M. Sussman , Carl P. Goodrich , Andrea J. Liu , Sidney R. Nagel

We have performed a novel experiment on granular packs composed of automatically swelling particles. By analyzing the Voronoi structure of packs going through the jamming transition, we show that the local configuration of a jamming pack is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-06-24 Xiang Cheng

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

Studies of disordered heterogeneous media and galaxy cosmology share a common goal: analyzing the distribution of particles at `microscales' to predict physical properties at `macroscales', whether for a liquid, composite material, or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 Oliver H. E. Philcox , Salvatore Torquato

Heterogeneous materials consisting of different phases are ideally suited to achieve a broad spectrum of desirable bulk physical properties by combining the best features of the constituents through the strategic spatial arrangement of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-10 Duyu Chen , Salvatore Torquato

Disordered hyperuniform structures are an exotic state of matter having suppressed density fluctuations at large length-scale similar to perfect crystals and quasicrystals but without any long range orientational order. In the past decade,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-18 Yusheng Lei , Ran Ni

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 show that quasi-long-range (QLR) pair correlations that decay asymptotically with scaling $r^{-(d+1)}$ in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$, trademarks of certain quantum systems and cosmological structures, are a universal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 Chase E. Zachary , Yang Jiao , Salvatore Torquato

Disordered and hyperuniform structures of densely packed spheres near and at jamming are characterized by vanishing of long-wavelength density fluctuations, or equivalently by long-range power-law decay of the direct correlation function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-04 Hiroshi Frusawa

We study the Voronoi and void statistics of super-homogeneous (or hyperuniform) point patterns in which the infinite-wavelength density fluctuations vanish. Super-homogeneous or hyperuniform point patterns arise in one-component plasmas,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Andrea Gabrielli , Salvatore Torquato

We study long range density fluctuations (hyperuniformity) in two-dimensional jammed packings of bidisperse droplets. Taking advantage of microfluidics, we systematically span a large range of size and concentration ratios of the two…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-11-21 Joshua Ricouvier , Romain Pierrat , Rémi Carminati , Patrick Tabeling , Pavel Yazhgur

The properties of the absorbing states of non-equilibrium models belonging to the conserved directed percolation universality class are studied. We find that at the critical point the absorbing states are hyperuniform, exhibiting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-24 Daniel Hexner , Dov Levine

The unconventional thermal properties of jammed amorphous solids are directly related to their density of vibrational states. While the vibrational spectrum of jammed soft sphere solids has been fully described, the vibrational spectrum of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-01 Francesco Arceri , Eric I. Corwin

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

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

The concept of hyperuniformity has been introduced by Torquato and Stillinger in 2003 as a notion to detect structural behaviour intermediate between amorphous disorder and crystalline order. The present paper studies a generalisation of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Johann S. Brauchart , Peter J. Grabner , Wöden B. Kusner , Jonas Ziefle

In periodically sheared suspensions there is a dynamical phase transition characterized by a critical strain amplitude $\gamma_c$ between an absorbing state where particle trajectories are reversible and an active state where trajectories…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-07 Sam Wilken , Rodrigo E. Guerra , David J. Pine , Paul M. Chaikin