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Why is Random Close Packing Reproducible? Export

by: Randall D. Kamien, Andrea J. Liu
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 99, No. 15. (2007), pp. 155501-155501.

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We link the thermodynamics of colloidal suspensions to the statistics of regular and random packings. Random close packing has defied a rigorous definition yet, in three dimensions, there is near universal agreement on the volume fraction at which it occurs. We conjecture that the common value of rcp0.64 arises from a divergence in the rate at which accessible states disappear. We relate this rate to the equation of state for a hard-sphere fluid on a metastable, noncrystalline branch.


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