Song, Chaoming; Wang, Ping; Jin, Yuliang; Makse, Hernán A. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389 (2010) 21, pp. 4497-4509
We introduce a “Hamiltonian”-like function, called the volume function, indispensable to describe the ensemble of jammed matter such as granular materials and emulsions from a geometrical point of view. The volume function represents the available volume of each particle in the jammed...