Dense crystalline dimer packings of regular tetrahedra

DOI10.1007/S00454-010-9273-0zbMATH Open1200.52011arXiv1001.0586OpenAlexW1968836887WikidataQ56169157 ScholiaQ56169157MaRDI QIDQ5962355FDOQ5962355

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

Publication date: 22 September 2010

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

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.

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

zbMATH Keywords

packingcrystallographyHilbert problemregular solid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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