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- Equilibrium sampling of hard spheres up to the jamming density and beyond doi link

Auteur(s): Berthier L., Coslovich D., Ninarello A. S., Ozawa M.

(Article) Publié: Physical Review Letters, vol. 116 p.238002 (2016)
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Résumé:

We implement and optimize a particle-swap Monte-Carlo algorithm that allows us to thermalize a polydisperse system of hard spheres up to unprecedentedly-large volume fractions, where \revise{previous} algorithms and experiments fail to equilibrate. We show that no glass singularity intervenes before the jamming density, which we independently determine through two distinct non-equilibrium protocols. We demonstrate that equilibrium fluid and non-equilibrium jammed states can have the same density, showing that the jamming transition cannot be the end-point of the fluid branch.



Commentaires: 5 pages, 3 figs; To be published in Phys. Rev. Lett. Réf Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 238002 (2016)