Atomic packing of the inherent structure of simple liquids.
We report a universal inherent packing structure underlying the simple liquids, the normalized distribution functions of which are independent of temperature and density. The inherent packing state, carrying the maximized configurational entropy, has intrinsic connections with the maximally random jammed state of hard spheres.
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Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA. hwsheng@jhu.edu
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