Wang, Ping; Song, Chaoming; Jin, Yuliang; Makse, Hernán A. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 390 (2011) 3, pp. 427-455
The problem of finding the most efficient way to pack spheres has an illustrious history, dating back to the crystalline arrays conjectured by Kepler and the random geometries explored by Bernal in the 1960s. This problem finds applications spanning from the mathematician’s pencil, the...