Equilibrium sampling of hard spheres up to the jamming density and beyond Auteur(s): Berthier L., Coslovich D., Ninarello A. S., Ozawa M. (Article) Publié: Physical Review Letters, vol. 116 p.238002 (2016) Texte intégral en Openaccess : Ref HAL: hal-01331594_v1 Ref Arxiv: 1511.06182 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.238002 WoS: 000377509900014 Ref. & Cit.: NASA ADS Exporter : BibTex | endNote 76 Citations 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) |