Meyer, Sam; Song, Chaoming; Jin, Yuliang; Wang, Kun; … - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389 (2010) 22, pp. 5137-5144
We investigate the existence of random close and random loose packing limits in two-dimensional packings of monodisperse hard disks. A statistical mechanics approach–based on several approximations to predict the probability distribution of volumes–suggests the existence of the limiting...