Packing Hyperspheres in High-Dimensional Euclidean Spaces

Details Packing Hyperspheres in High-Dimensional Euclidean Spaces Packing Hyperspheres in High-Dimensional Euclidean Spaces

2006-08-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608362v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

28 pages, 9 figures. To appear in Physical Review E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.74.041127

We present the first study of disordered jammed hard-sphere packings in four-, five- and six-dimensional Euclidean spaces. Using a collision-driven packing generation algorithm, we obtain the first estimates for the packing fractions of the maximally random jammed (MRJ) states for space dimensions $d=4$, 5 and 6 to be $\phi_{MRJ} \simeq 0.46$, 0.31 and 0.20, respectively. To a good approximation, the MRJ density obeys the scaling form $\phi_{MRJ}= c_1/2^d+(c_2 d)/2^d$, where $c_1=-2.72$ and $c_2=2.56$, which appears to be consistent with high-dimensional asymptotic limit, albeit with different coefficients. Calculations of the pair correlation function $g_{2}(r)$ and structure factor $S(k)$ for these states show that short-range ordering appreciably decreases with increasing dimension, consistent with a recently proposed ``decorrelation principle,'' which, among othe things, states that unconstrained correlations diminish as the dimension increases and vanish entirely in the limit $d \to \infty$. As in three dimensions (where $\phi_{MRJ} \simeq 0.64$), the packings show no signs of crystallization, are isostatic, and have a power-law divergence in $g_{2}(r)$ at contact with power-law exponent $\simeq 0.4$. Across dimensions, the cumulative number of neighbors equals the kissing number of the conjectured densest packing close to where $g_{2}(r)$ has its first minimum. We obtain estimates for the freezing and melting desnities for the equilibrium hard-sphere fluid-solid transition, $\phi_F \simeq 0.32$ and $\phi_M \simeq 0.39$, respectively, for $d=4$, and $\phi_F \simeq 0.19$ and $\phi_M \simeq 0.24$, respectively, for $d=5$.

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