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Indaco Biazzo1, Francesco Caltagirone, Giorgio Parisi
1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma, La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy.
Abstract:
We extend our theory of amorphous packings of hard spheres to binary mixtures and more generally to multicomponent systems. The theory is based on the assumption that amorphous packings produced by typical experimental or numerical protocols can be identified with the infinite pressure limit of long-lived metastable glassy states. We test this assumption against numerical and experimental data and show that the theory correctly reproduces the variation with mixture composition of structural observables, such as the total packing fraction and the partial coordination numbers.
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