Dense crystalline dimer packings of regular tetrahedra

Autor:	Chen, Elizabeth R., Engel, Michael, Glotzer, Sharon C.
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter Mathematics - Metric Geometry
Zdroj:	Discrete & Computational Geometry 44, 253 (2010)
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1007/s00454-010-9273-0
Popis:	We present the densest known packing of regular tetrahedra with density phi = 4000/4671 = 0.856347... Like the recently discovered packings of Kallus et al. [arXiv:0910.5226] and Torquato-Jiao [arXiv:0912.4210], our packing is crystalline with a unit cell of four tetrahedra forming two triangular dipyramids (dimer clusters). We show that our packing has maximal density within a three-parameter family of dimer packings. Numerical compressions starting from random configurations suggest that the packing may be optimal at least for small cells with up to 16 tetrahedra and periodic boundaries. Comment: 43 pages, revision of the proofs and the appendices, data for small unit cell packings in appendix D
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0586 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv