Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2010-08-10
Eur. Phys. J. E, 33, 1 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
two columns, 14 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Eur. Phys. J. E
Scientific paper
10.1140/epje/i2010-10644-9
It is presented a numerical study on the unjamming packing fraction of bi- and polydisperse disk packings, which are generated through compression of a monodisperse crystal. In bidisperse systems, a fraction f_+ = 40% up to 80% of the total number of particles have their radii increased by \Delta R, while the rest has their radii decreased by the same amount. Polydisperse packings are prepared by changing all particle radii according to a uniform distribution in the range [-\Delta R,\Delta R]. The results indicate that the critical packing fraction is never larger than the value for the initial monodisperse crystal, \phi = \pi/12, and that the lowest value achieved is approximately the one for random close packing. These results are seen as a consequence of the interplay between the increase in small-small particle contacts and the local crystalline order provided by the large-large particle contacts.
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