Comment on "Explicit Analytical Solution for Random Close Packing in $d = 2$ and $d = 3$"
Statistical Mechanics
2025-09-01 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
A recent letter titled "Explicit Analytical Solution for Random Close Packing in d=2 and d=3" published in Physical Review Letters proposes a first-principle computation of the random close packing (RCP) density in spatial dimensions d=2 and d=3. This problem has a long history of such proposals, but none capture the full picture. This paper, in particular, once generalized to all d fails to describe the known behavior of jammed systems in d>4, thus suggesting that the low-dimensional agreement is largely fortuitous.
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@article{arxiv.2201.07629,
title = {Comment on "Explicit Analytical Solution for Random Close Packing in $d = 2$ and $d = 3$"},
author = {Patrick Charbonneau and Peter K. Morse},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.07629},
year = {2025}
}
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2 pages, 1 figure