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C B O'Donovan¹, M E Möbius

¹School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

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Disks in random packings surprisingly connect to neighbors with opposite contact numbers. This finding, similar to the Aboav-Weaire law, reveals hidden order in granular materials.

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Computational Science

Background:

Understanding particle interactions is crucial in granular materials.
Polydisperse, frictionless packings are common models for granular systems.
Correlations between particle properties influence bulk behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate next-nearest-neighbor correlations of contact numbers in 2D polydisperse, frictionless packings.
To explore the relationship between particle contact numbers and their neighbors' properties.
To compare findings with established laws like the Aboav-Weaire law.

Main Methods:

Simulations of polydisperse, frictionless disks in two dimensions.
Analysis of contact numbers between particles and their neighbors.
Development of empirical relations to describe observed correlations.

Main Results:

Disks with few neighbors predominantly contact disks with many neighbors, and vice versa, across all packing fractions.
An empirical one-parameter relation, analogous to the Aboav-Weaire law, was identified and satisfies a sum rule.
No correlations were found between the radii of neighboring particles, despite radius-contact number correlations.

Conclusions:

A counterintuitive correlation exists between the contact numbers of neighboring particles in granular packings.
The Aboav-Weaire law provides a useful analogy for understanding these correlations.
The findings highlight complex structural organization within granular systems independent of particle size correlations.