title: Reversible polydisperse parking lot model.
abstract: We use an improved reversible parking lot model to study the compaction of vibrated polydisperse media. The particle sizes are distributed according to a truncated power law. We introduce a self-consistent desorption mechanism with a hierarchical initialization of the system. In this way, we approach densities close to unity. The final density depends on the polydispersity of the system as well as on the initialization and will reach a maximum value for a certain exponent in the power law.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Computational Physics, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 27, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wackenhut
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Herrmann