Percolation of disordered jammed sphere packings

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA5664MaRDI QIDQ2969885zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Salvatore Torquato, R. M. Ziff

Publication date 23 March 2017

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00279

zbMATH Keywords

filling factorjammed spherespercolation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Percolation (82B43)

Abstract: We determine the site and bond percolation thresholds for a system of disordered jammed sphere packings in the maximally random jammed state, generated by the Torquato-Jiao algorithm. For the site threshold, which gives the fraction of conducting vs. non-conducting spheres necessary for percolation, we find $p_c=0.3116(3)$, consistent with the 1979 value of Powell $0.310(5)$ and identical within errors to the threshold for the simple-cubic lattice, 0.311608, which shares the same average coordination number of 6. In terms of the volume fraction $varphi$, the threshold corresponds to a critical value $varph{i}_c=0.199$. For the bond threshold, which apparently was not measured before, we find $p_c=0.2424(3)$. To find these thresholds, we considered two shape-dependent universal ratios involving the size of the largest cluster, fluctuations in that size, and the second moment of the size distribution; we confirmed the ratios' universality by also studying the simple-cubic lattice with a similar cubic boundary. The results are applicable to many problems including conductivity in random mixtures, glass formation, and drug loading in pharmaceutical tablets.

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