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Is Random Close Packing of Spheres Well Defined?
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Despite its long history, there are many fundamental issues concerning random packings of spheres that remain elusive, including a precise definition of random close packing (RCP). We argue that the current picture of RCP cannot be made mathematically precise and support this conclusion via a molecular dynamics study of hard spheres using the Lubachevsky-Stillinger compression algorithm. We suggest that this impasse can be broken by introducing the new concept of a maximally random jammed state, which can be made precise.
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- Torquato, S., Truskett, T. M., & Debenedetti, P. G.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2000-03-06
- Volume
- 84
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 2064-2067
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2026011478
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- 1,379
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 25.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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