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Nature: Phase diagram of jammed matter and random close packing

 July 7, 2008 |  Hernan Makse |  Uncategorized

Paper in the Nature issue of May 29, 2008, and Supplementary Materials. News & Viewseditorial by Zamponi. Press release. Nature Physics: Research Highlights, p435. Physics World.Science Daily. Physorg.com. Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News.

The following follow up papers are in Physica A and in cond-mat: Jamming I: A Hamiltonian for jammed matter. Jamming II: A phase diagram for jammed matter. Jamming III: Characterizing Randomness via the Entropy of Jammed Matter. Jamming IV: A distribution of volumes and coordination number in jammed matter: mesoscopic approximation. Jamming V: Jamming in two dimensions.

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