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Marginal Stability Constrains Force and Pair Distributions at Random Close Packing

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Author(s): Matthieu Wyart

The requirement that packings of frictionless hard spheres, arguably the simplest structural glass, cannot be compressed by rearranging their network of contacts is shown to yield a new constraint on their microscopic structure. This constraint takes the form a bound between the distribution of cont…

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 125502] Published Tue Sep 18, 2012

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