Dense Packings of Superdisks and the Role of Symmetry

Details Dense Packings of Superdisks and the Role of Symmetry Dense Packings of Superdisks and the Role of Symmetry

2007-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/0712.0420v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

15 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.245504

We construct the densest known two-dimensional packings of superdisks in the plane whose shapes are defined by |x^(2p) + y^(2p)| <= 1, which contains both convex-shaped particles (p > 0.5, with the circular-disk case p = 1) and concave-shaped particles (0 < p < 0.5). The packings of the convex cases with p 1 generated by a recently developed event-driven molecular dynamics (MD) simulation algorithm [Donev, Torquato and Stillinger, J. Comput. Phys. 202 (2005) 737] suggest exact constructions of the densest known packings. We find that the packing density (covering fraction of the particles) increases dramatically as the particle shape moves away from the "circular-disk" point (p = 1). In particular, we find that the maximal packing densities of superdisks for certain p 6 = 1 are achieved by one of the two families of Bravais lattice packings, which provides additional numerical evidence for Minkowski's conjecture concerning the critical determinant of the region occupied by a superdisk. Moreover, our analysis on the generated packings reveals that the broken rotational symmetry of superdisks influences the packing characteristics in a non-trivial way. We also propose an analytical method to construct dense packings of concave superdisks based on our observations of the structural properties of packings of convex superdisks.

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