When a system jams, it undergoes a transition from a flowing to a rigid state. Despite this
important change in the dynamics, the internal structure of the system remains disordered in …

Understanding the characteristics of jammed particle packings provides basic insights into
the structure and bulk properties of crystals, glasses, and granular media and into selected …

The phenomenology of the glass transition and the associated behavior in the near liquid
and glassy states are detailed, including the cooling rate dependence of the glass transition …

Hard spheres are ubiquitous in condensed matter: they have been used as models for
liquids, crystals, colloidal systems, granular systems, and powders. Packings of hard …

The remarkable kinetic slowdown experienced by liquids as they are cooled toward their
glass transition is not accompanied by any obvious structural change. Understanding the …

The densest amorphous packing of rigid particles is known as random close packing. It has
long been appreciated that higher densities are achieved by using collections of particles …

We present a study of disordered jammed hard-sphere packings in four-, five-, and six-
dimensional Euclidean spaces. Using a collision-driven packing generation algorithm, we …

The configurational entropy is one of the most important thermodynamic quantities
characterizing supercooled liquids approaching the glass transition. Despite decades of …

Packing problems have been a source of fascination for millennia and their study has
produced a rich literature that spans numerous disciplines. Investigations of hard-particle …

Phase transitions significantly differ between 2D and 3D systems, but the influence of
dimensionality on the glass transition is unresolved. We use microscopy to study colloidal …