  We numerically study the local stress distribution within athermal,
isotropically stressed, mechanically stable, packings of bidisperse
frictionless disks above the jamming transition in two dimensions. Considering
the Fourier transform of the local stress, we find evidence for algebraically
increasing fluctuations in both isotropic and anisotropic components of the
stress tensor at small wavenumbers, contrary to recent theoretical predictions.
Such increasing fluctuations imply a lack of self-averaging of the stress on
large length scales. The crossover to these increasing fluctuations defines a
length scale $\ell_0$, however it appears that $\ell_0$ does not vary much with
packing fraction $\phi$, nor does $\ell_0$ seem to be diverging as $\phi$
approaches the jamming $\phi_J$. We also find similar large length scale
fluctuations of stress in the inherent states of a quenched Lennard-Jones
liquid, leading us to speculate that such fluctuations may be a general
property of amorphous solids in two dimensions.
