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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 84, Issue 10, Pages 2064-2067Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.2064
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Despite its long history, there are many fundamental issues concerning random packings of spheres that remain elusive, including a precise definition of random close packing (RCP). We argue that the current picture of RCP cannot be made mathematically precise and support this conclusion via a molecular dynamics study of hard spheres using the Lubachevsky-Stillinger compression algorithm. We suggest that this impasse can be broken by introducing the new concept of a maximally random jammed state, which can be made precise.
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