Equilibrium sampling of hard spheres up to the jamming density and beyond
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❄️ cond-mat.stat-mech
cond-mat.soft
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densityjammingequilibriumfluidhardnon-equilibriumspheresalgorithm
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We implement and optimize a particle-swap Monte-Carlo algorithm that allows us to thermalize a polydisperse system of hard spheres up to unprecedentedly-large volume fractions, where \revise{previous} algorithms and experiments fail to equilibrate. We show that no glass singularity intervenes before the jamming density, which we independently determine through two distinct non-equilibrium protocols. We demonstrate that equilibrium fluid and non-equilibrium jammed states can have the same density, showing that the jamming transition cannot be the end-point of the fluid branch.
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