Lubachevsky–Stillinger algorithm: Difference between revisions

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(or circular in two dimensions) shape, even a simplest one, when spheres are replaced with ellipsoids (or ellipses in two dimensions)

<ref>A. Donev, F.H. Stillinger, P.M. Chaikin, and S. Torquato, Unusually Dense Crystal Packings of Ellipsoids, Phys. Rev. Letters 92, 255506 (2004)</ref>

, causes thus modified LSA to slow down dramaticallysubstantially.

But as long as the shape is spherical,

the LSA is able to handle particle ensembles