title: Hyperuniform long-range correlations are a signature of disordered jammed hard-particle packings.
abstract: We show that quasi-long-range (QLR) pair correlations that decay asymptotically with scaling r(-(d+1)) in d-dimensional Euclidean space R(d), trademarks of certain quantum systems and cosmological structures, are a universal signature of maximally random jammed (MRJ) hard-particle packings. We introduce a novel hyperuniformity descriptor in MRJ packings by studying local-volume-fraction fluctuations and show that infinite-wavelength fluctuations vanish even for packings with size and shape distributions. Special void statistics induce hyperuniformity and QLR pair correlations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
authors.forename: Chase E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Zachary
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jiao
authors.forename: Salvatore
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Torquato