Comment on “Jamming at zero temperature and zero applied stress: The epitome of disorder”

Aleksandar Donev, Salvatore Torquato, Frank H. Stillinger, and Robert Connelly
Phys. Rev. E 70, 043301 – Published 25 October 2004

Abstract

O’Hern, Silbert, Liu, and Nagel [Phys. Rev. E. 68, 011306 (2003)] claim that a special point J of a “jamming phase diagram” (in density, temperature, stress space) is related to random close packing of hard spheres and that it represents, for their suggested definitions of jammed and random, the recently introduced maximally random jammed state. We point out several difficulties with their definitions and question some of their claims. Furthermore, we discuss the connections between their algorithm and other hard-sphere packing algorithms in the literature.

  • Received 31 January 2004

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.70.043301

©2004 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Aleksandar Donev1,2, Salvatore Torquato1,2,3,*, Frank H. Stillinger3, and Robert Connelly4

  • 1Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
  • 2Materials Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
  • 3Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
  • 4Department of Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA

  • *Electronic address: torquato@electron.princeton.edu

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Reply to “Comment on ‘Jamming at zero temperature and zero applied stress: The epitome of disorder’ ”

Corey S. O’Hern, Leonardo E. Silbert, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel
Phys. Rev. E 70, 043302 (2004)

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Jamming at zero temperature and zero applied stress: The epitome of disorder

Corey S. O’Hern, Leonardo E. Silbert, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel
Phys. Rev. E 68, 011306 (2003)

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Vol. 70, Iss. 4 — October 2004

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