Dense periodic packings of tori
arXiv:1402.6745 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.89.022133
Abstract
Dense packings of nonoverlapping bodies in three-dimensional Euclidean space are useful models of the structure of a variety of many-particle systems that arise in the physical and biological sciences. Here we investigate the packing behavior of congruent ring tori, which are multiply connected nonconvex bodies of genus 1, as well as horn and spindle tori. We analytically construct a family of dense periodic packings of unlinked tori guided by the organizing principles originally devised for simply connected solid bodies [Torquato and Jiao, PRE 86, 011102 (2012)]. We find that the horn tori as well as certain spindle and ring tori can achieve a packing density higher than the densest known packing of both sphere and ellipsoids. In addition, we study dense packings of cluster of pair-linked ring tori (i.e., Hopf links).
arXiv comment15 pages, 7 figures
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