Direct determination of the size of basins of attraction of jammed solids.

We propose a free-energy-based Monte Carlo method to measure the volume of potential-energy basins in configuration space. Using this approach we can estimate the number of distinct potential-energy minima, even when this number is much too large to be sampled directly. We validate our approach by comparing our results with the direct enumeration of distinct jammed states in small packings of frictionless spheres. We find that the entropy of distinct packings is extensive and that the entropy of distinct hard-sphere packings must have a maximum as a function of packing fraction.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Physical Review Letters

• Publication date

  2011-01-31

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.245502arXiv 1101.5879PMID 21770580
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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