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Hyperuniform jammed sphere packings have anomalous material properties

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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 106, Issue 2, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.106.024903

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  1. Simons Col-laboration on Cracking the Glass Problem [454939]

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A spatial distribution is considered hyperuniform if local density fluctuations disappear at long length scales. Recent research has shown that jammed systems exhibit complex behaviors instead of disordered hyperuniformity at long lengths. By using Voronoi tessellation and rescaling transformations, hyperuniform, mechanically stable packings can be iteratively generated in simulations. These packings display atypical mechanical properties, particularly in low-frequency phononic excitations.
A spatial distribution is hyperuniform if it has local density fluctuations that vanish in the limit of long length scales. Hyperuniformity is a well known property of both crystals and quasicrystals. Of recent interest, however, is disordered hyperuniformity: the presence of hyperuniform scaling without long-range configurational order. Jammed granular packings have been proposed as an example of disordered hyperuniformity, but recent numerical investigation has revealed that many jammed systems instead exhibit a complex set of distinct behaviors at long, emergent length scales. We use the Voronoi tessellation as a tool to define a set of rescaling transformations that can impose hyperuniformity on an arbitrary weighted point process, and show that these transformations can be used in simulations to iteratively generate hyperuniform, mechanically stable packings of athermal soft spheres. These hyperuniform jammed packings display atypical mechanical properties, particularly in the low-frequency phononic excitations, which exhibit an isolated band of highly collective modes and a band gap around zero frequency.

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