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The average distance of the equal hard spheres is introduced to evaluate the density of a given arrangement. The absolute smallest value is two radii because the spheres can not be closer to each other than their diameter. The absolute…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-01-12 Jozsef Garai

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

Disordered stealthy hyperuniform (SHU) packings are an emerging class of exotic amorphous two-phase materials endowed with novel physical properties. Such packings of identical spheres have been created from SHU point patterns via a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-24 Jaeuk Kim , Salvatore Torquato

Random packings and their properties are a popular and active field of research. Numerical algorithms that can efficiently generate them are useful tools in their study. This paper focuses on random packings produced according to the random…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Michał Cieśla , Piotr Kubala , Ge Zhang

The goal of random sequential adsorption (RSA), a time-dependent packing method, is to create a regular or asymmetric covering of an empty space that can fit in the allocated space without overlapping. The density of coverage tends to reach…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-03 Aref Abbasi Moud

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

We investigate, by "a la Marcinkiewicz" techniques applied to the (asymptotic) density function, how dense systems of equal spheres of $\rb^{n}, n \geq 1,$ can be partitioned at infinity in order to allow the computation of their density as…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2008-12-10 Gilbert Muraz , Jean-Louis Verger-Gaugry

We establish a precise relation between the modular bootstrap, used to constrain the spectrum of 2D CFTs, and the sphere packing problem in Euclidean geometry. The modular bootstrap bound for chiral algebra $U(1)^c$ maps exactly to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Thomas Hartman , Dalimil Mazáč , Leonardo Rastelli

The method, proposed in \cite{Za22} to derive the densest packing fraction of random disc and sphere packings, is shown to yield in two dimensions too high a value that (i) violates the very assumption underlying the method and (ii)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-02-15 Raphael Blumenfeld

Packing problems, which ask how to arrange a collection of objects in space to meet certain criteria, are important in a great many physical and biological systems, where geometrical arrangements at small scales control behaviour at larger…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-23 Miranda C. Holmes-Cerfon

The sphere packing problem asks for the densest packing of unit balls in d-dimensional Euclidean space. This problem has its roots in geometry, number theory and it is part of Hilbert's 18th problem. In 1958 C. A. Rogers proved a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Karoly Bezdek

The problem of finding the most efficient way to pack spheres has an illustrious history, dating back to the crystalline arrays conjectured by Kepler and the random geometries explored by Bernal in the 60's. This problem finds applications…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-15 Ping Wang , Chaoming Song , Yuliang Jin , Hernan A. Makse

Using graph-theoretic methods we give a new proof that for all sufficiently large $n$, there exist sphere packings in $\R^n$ of density at least $cn2^{-n}$, exceeding the classical Minkowski bound by a factor linear in $n$. This matches up…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Krivelevich , Simon Litsyn , Alexander Vardy

A notorious problem in mathematics and physics is to create a solvable model for random sequential adsorption of non-overlapping congruent spheres in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space with $d\geq 2$. Spheres arrive sequentially at…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Souvik Dhara , Johan S. H. van Leeuwaarden , Debankur Mukherjee

Sphere packing, Hilbert's eighteenth problem, asks for the densest arrangement of congruent spheres in n-dimensional Euclidean space. Although relevant to areas such as cryptography, crystallography, and medical imaging, the problem remains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Rasul Tutunov , Alexandre Maraval , Antoine Grosnit , Xihan Li , Jun Wang , Haitham Bou-Ammar

A stochastic PDE, describing mesoscopic fluctuations in systems of weakly interacting inertial particles of finite volume, is proposed and analysed in any finite dimension $d\in\mathbb{N}$. It is a regularised and inertial version of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-10 Federico Cornalba , Tony Shardlow , Johannes Zimmer

We study by Monte Carlo computer simulations random sequential adsorption (RSA) with diffusional relaxation, of lattice hard squares in two dimensions. While for RSA without diffusion the coverage approaches its maximum jamming value…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-13 J. -S. Wang , P. Nielaba , V. Privman

The aim of this paper is to review and discuss qualitatively some results on the properties of amorphous packings of hard spheres that were recently obtained by means of the replica method. The theory gives predictions for the equation of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Zamponi

We study random sequential adsorption (RSA) of a class of solids that can be obtained from a cube by specific cutting of its vertices, in order to find out how the transition from tetrahedral to octahedral symmetry affects the densities of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-22 Piotr Kubala , Michał Cieśla , Robert M. Ziff

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