Static Structural Signatures of Nearly Jammed Disordered and Ordered Hard-Sphere Packings: Direct Correlation Function

Abstract

Dynamical signatures are known to precede jamming in hard-particle systems, but static structural signatures have proven more elusive. The observation that compressing hard-particle packings towards jamming causes growing hyperuniformity has paved the way for the analysis of jamming as an "inverted critical point" in which the direct correlation function $c(r)$ diverges. We establish quantitative relationships between various singularities in $c(r)$ and the total correlation function $h(r)$ that provide a concrete means of identifying features that must be expressed in $c(r)$ if one hopes to reproduce details in the pair correlation function accurately. We also analyze systems of three-dimensional monodisperse hard-spheres of diameter $D$ as they approach ordered and disordered jammed configurations. For the latter, we use the Lubachevsky-Stillinger (LS) and Torquato-Jiao (TJ) packing algorithms, which both generate disordered packings, but can show perceptible structural differences. We identify a short-ranged scaling $c(r)\propto -1/r$ as $r\to 0$ and show that this, along with the developing delta function at $c(D)$, is a consequence of the growing long-rangedness in $c(r)$. Near the freezing density, we identify qualitative differences in the structure factor $S(k)$ as well as $c(r)$ between TJ- and LS-generated configurations and link them to differences in the protocols' packing dynamics. Configurations from both algorithms have structure factors that approach zero in the low-wavenumber limit as jamming is approached and are shown to exhibit a corresponding power-law decay in $c(r)$ for large $r$ as a consequence. Our work advances the notion that static signatures are exhibited by hard-particle packings as they approach jamming and underscores the utility of the direct correlation function as a means of monitoring for an incipient rigid network.

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