Hyperuniform states of matter

S Torquato - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Hyperuniform states of matter are correlated systems that are characterized by an
anomalous suppression of long-wavelength (ie, large-length-scale) density fluctuations …

Hyperuniformity and its generalizations

S Torquato - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
Disordered many-particle hyperuniform systems are exotic amorphous states of matter that
lie between crystal and liquid: They are like perfect crystals in the way they suppress large …

Perspective: Basic understanding of condensed phases of matter via packing models

S Torquato - The Journal of chemical physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Packing problems have been a source of fascination for millennia and their study has
produced a rich literature that spans numerous disciplines. Investigations of hard-particle …

Disordered hyperuniform heterogeneous materials

S Torquato - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Disordered hyperuniform many-body systems are distinguishable states of matter that lie
between a crystal and liquid: they are like perfect crystals in the way they suppress large …

Crystallization of Flexible Chains of Tangent Hard Spheres under Full Confinement

PM Ramos, M Herranz… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We present results from extensive Monte Carlo simulations on the crystallization of athermal
polymers under full confinement. Polymers are represented as freely jointed chains of …

From jamming to fast compaction dynamics in granular binary mixtures

S Pillitteri, G Lumay, E Opsomer, N Vandewalle - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Binary granular mixtures are known to show various packing arrangements depending on
both fractions and size ratios of their components. While the final packing fraction can be …

Entropy-driven heterogeneous crystallization of hard-sphere chains under unidimensional confinement

PM Ramos, M Herranz, K Foteinopoulou… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
We investigate, through Monte Carlo simulations, the heterogeneous crystallization of linear
chains of tangent hard spheres under confinement in one dimension. Confinement is …

Effect of the particle size ratio on the structural properties of granular mixtures with discrete particle size distribution

J Wiącek, M Stasiak - Granular Matter, 2018 - Springer
In this study, the discrete element method was used to examine the structural properties and
geometric anisotropy of polydisperse granular packings with discrete uniform particle size …

Off-lattice simulation algorithms for athermal chain molecules under extreme confinement

PM Ramos, NC Karayiannis, M Laso - Journal of Computational Physics, 2018 - Elsevier
A new algorithmic approach is presented for the generation and successive equilibration of
polymer configurations under conditions of extreme confinement where the inter-wall …

Binary mixtures of charged colloids: a potential route to synthesize disordered hyperuniform materials

D Chen, E Lomba, S Torquato - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Disordered hyperuniform materials are a new, exotic class of amorphous matter that exhibits
crystal-like behavior, in the sense that volume-fraction fluctuations are suppressed at large …