Dense crystalline dimer packings of regular tetrahedra

DOI10.1007/S00454-010-9273-0MaRDI QIDQ5962355zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Elizabeth R. Chen, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer

Publication date 22 September 2010

Published in Discrete \& Computational Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0586

zbMATH Keywords

crystallographyHilbert problempackingregular solid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Packing and covering in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C17) Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10)

Abstract: We present the densest known packing of regular tetrahedra with density phi = 4000/4671 = 0.856347... Like the recently discovered packings of Kallus et al. [arXiv:0910.5226] and Torquato-Jiao [arXiv:0912.4210], our packing is crystalline with a unit cell of four tetrahedra forming two triangular dipyramids (dimer clusters). We show that our packing has maximal density within a three-parameter family of dimer packings. Numerical compressions starting from random configurations suggest that the packing may be optimal at least for small cells with up to 16 tetrahedra and periodic boundaries.

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