Physicists use a new absorbing-state model to investigate random close packing
Published Date: 8/31/2021
Source: phys.org
Sphere packing, a mathematical problem in which non-overlapping spheres are arranged within a given space, has been widely investigated in the past. It has been proven that the densest possible packing is a face-centered cubic (FCC) crystal with a space-filling fraction of ϕFCC=π/√18≈0.74.