Correlation between Voronoi volumes in disc packings

Abstract

We measure the two-point correlation of free Voronoi volumes in binary disc packings, where the packing fraction ${\varphi }_{\mathrm{avg}}$ ranges from 0.8175 to 0.8380. We observe short-ranged correlations over the whole range of ${\varphi }_{\mathrm{avg}}$ and anti-correlations for ${\varphi }_{\mathrm{avg}}>0.8277$. The spatial extent of the anti-correlation increases with ${\varphi }_{\mathrm{avg}}$ while the position of the maximum of the anti-correlation and the extent of the positive correlation shrink with ${\varphi }_{\mathrm{avg}}$. We conjecture that the onset of anti-correlation corresponds to dilatancy onset in this system.

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