{
  "id": "1511.06182",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2015-11-19T14:28:56.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-11-19T14:28:56.000Z",
  "title": "Equilibrium sampling of hard spheres up to the jamming density and beyond",
  "authors": [
    "Ludovic Berthier",
    "Daniele Coslovich",
    "Andrea Ninarello",
    "Misaki Ozawa"
  ],
  "comment": "5 pages, 3 figs",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "cond-mat.soft"
  ],
  "abstract": "We implement and optimize a particle-swap Monte-Carlo algorithm that allows us to thermalize a polydisperse system of hard spheres up to unprecedently-large volume fractions, where standard algorithms and experiments fail to equilibrate. We show that no glass singularity intervenes before the jamming density, which we independently determine through two distinct non-equilibrium protocols. We demonstrate that equilibrium fluid and non-equilibrium jammed states can have the same density, showing that the jamming transition cannot be the end-point of the fluid branch.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2015-11-19T14:28:56.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "hard spheres",
      "jamming density",
      "equilibrium sampling",
      "particle-swap monte-carlo algorithm",
      "unprecedently-large volume fractions"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 5,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2015arXiv151106182B"
    }
  }
}