2009/03/29 by Indaco Biazzo, Francesco Caltagirone, Giorgio Parisi +1 · 4 citations
Chemistry · Engineering · Materials Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Amorphous solid #Atomic packing factor #Binary number #Chemistry #Chromatography #Coordination number #Crystallography #Fraction (chemistry) #Hard spheres #Limit (mathematics) #Material Dynamics and Properties #Materials science #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Metastability #Observable #Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics #Physics #Quantum mechanics #SPHERES #Statistical physics #Theoretical and Computational Physics #Thermodynamics #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.102.195701
published as Phys.Rev.Lett. 102, 195701 (2009) · 10 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 2009/03/29 · openalex publication_date 2009/05/13 · arxiv updated 2015/05/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We extend our theory of amorphous packings of hard spheres to binary mixtures and more generally to multicomponent systems. The theory is based on the assumption that amorphous packings produced by typical experimental or numerical protocols can be identified with the infinite pressure limit of long-lived metastable glassy states. We test this assumption against numerical and experimental data and show that the theory correctly reproduces the variation with mixture composition of structural observables, such as the total packing fraction and the partial coordination numbers.