A theoretical perspective is provided on the glass transition in molecular liquids at thermal
equilibrium, on the spatially heterogeneous and aging dynamics of disordered materials …

Hard spheres are ubiquitous in condensed matter: they have been used as models for
liquids, crystals, colloidal systems, granular systems, and powders. Packings of hard …

In 1989, Sir Sam Edwards made the visionary proposition to treat jammed granular materials
using a volume ensemble of equiprobable jammed states in analogy to thermal equilibrium …

The most efficient way to pack equally sized spheres isotropically in three dimensions is
known as the random close packed state, which provides a starting point for many …

We investigate how the densities of inherent structures, which we refer to as the closest
jammed configurations, are distributed for packings of 104 frictionless hard spheres. A …

The configurational entropy is one of the most important thermodynamic quantities
characterizing supercooled liquids approaching the glass transition. Despite decades of …

Although the concept of random close packing with an almost universal packing fraction of
approximately 0.64 for hard spheres was introduced more than half a century ago, there are …

Finding the optimal random packing of non-spherical particles is an open problem with great
significance in a broad range of scientific and engineering fields. So far, this search has …

The shear behaviors of granular mixtures are studied using the discrete element method.
These granular materials contain real gravel-shaped coarse particles and spherical fine …

This report presents a numerical investigation of the shear behavior of binary mixtures via a
two-dimensional discrete element method. The effect of the coarse particle content on the …