Local Density Fluctuations, Hyperuniformity, and Order Metrics

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2003-11-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311532v1

S. Torquato and F. H. Stillinger, "Fluctuations, Hyperuniformity, and Order Metrics," Physical Review E, vol. 68, 041113 (2003

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages, 10 figures. Note that due to a Prodvol. 68, 041113 (2003)uction error in the published article in Physical Review E [

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.68.041113

We study the variance in the number of points contained within a window $\Omega$ of arbitrary size, and to further illuminate our understanding of {\it hyperuniform} systems, i.e., point patterns that do not possess long-wavelength fluctuations. For large windows, hyperuniform systems are characterized by a local variance that grows only as the surface area (rather than the volume) of the window. We show that a homogeneous point pattern in a hyperuniform state is at a ``critical-point'' of a type with appropriate scaling laws and critical exponents, but one in which the {\it direct correlation function} (rather than the pair correlation function) is long-ranged.variance.We prove that the simple periodic linear array yields the global minimum value of the average variance among all infinite one-dimensional hyperuniform patterns. We also evaluate the variance for common infinite periodic lattices as well as certain nonperiodic point patterns in one, two, and three dimensions for spherical windows.Our results suggest that the local variance may serve as a useful order metric for general point patterns. Contrary to the conjecture that the lattices associated with the densest packing of congruent spheres have the smallest variance regardless of the space dimension, we show that for $d=3$, the body-centered cubic lattice has a smaller variance than the face-centered cubic lattice. Finally, for certain hyperuniform disordered point patterns, we evaluate the direct correlation function, structure factor, and associated critical exponents exactly.

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