Transport, Geometrical and Topological Properties of Stealthy Disordered Hyperuniform Two-Phase Systems

TL;DR

This paper investigates the structural, topological, and transport properties of disordered hyperuniform two-phase systems derived from stealthy ground states, revealing unique characteristics distinct from traditional models.

Contribution

It introduces a novel mapping of stealthy hyperuniform point configurations to two-phase media and analyzes their transport and structural properties, highlighting differences from conventional systems.

Findings

Transport properties differ significantly from hard-sphere systems.

Structural metrics like pore-size and percolation thresholds are unique.

Disordered stealthy systems exhibit distinct topological features.

Abstract

Disordered hyperuniform many-particle systems have attracted considerable recent attention. One important class of such systems is the classical ground states of "stealthy potentials." The degree of order of such ground states depends on a tuning parameter. Previous studies have shown that these ground-state point configurations can be counterintuitively disordered, infinitely degenerate, and endowed with novel physical properties (e.g., negative thermal expansion behavior). In this paper, we focus on the disordered regime in which there is no long-range order, and control the degree of short-range order. We map these stealthy disordered hyperuniform point configurations to two-phase media by circumscribing each point with a possibly overlapping sphere of a common radius $a$: the "particle" and "void" phases are taken to be the space interior and exterior to the spheres, respectively. We study certain transport properties of these systems, including the effective diffusion coefficient of point particles diffusing in the void phase as well as static and time-dependent characteristics associated with diffusion-controlled reactions. Besides these effective transport properties, we also investigate several related structural properties, including pore-size functions, quantizer error, an order metric, and percolation threshold. We show that these transport, geometrical and topological properties of our two-phase media derived from decorated stealthy ground states are distinctly different from those of equilibrium hard-sphere systems and spatially uncorrelated overlapping spheres.