# Improving the Density of Jammed Disordered Packings Using Ellipsoids

@article{Donev2004ImprovingTD,
title={Improving the Density of Jammed Disordered Packings Using Ellipsoids},
author={Aleksandar Donev and Ibrahima Ciss{\'e} and D Sachs and Evan A. Variano and Frank H. Stillinger and Robert Connelly and Salvatore Torquato and Paul M. Chaikin},
journal={Science},
year={2004},
volume={303},
pages={990 - 993}
}
Packing problems, such as how densely objects can fill a volume, are among the most ancient and persistent problems in mathematics and science. For equal spheres, it has only recently been proved that the face-centered cubic lattice has the highest possible packing fraction \batchmode \documentclass[fleqn,10pt,legalpaper]{article} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amsmath} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} $${\varphi}={\pi}{/}\sqrt{18}{\approx}0.74$$ \end{document}. It is… Expand
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