Data di Pubblicazione:
2006
Citazione:
Dynamical arrest and replica symmetry breaking in attractive colloids / A. Velenich, A. Parola, L. Reatto. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS. - ISSN 1539-3755. - 74:2(2006), pp. 021410.021410-1-021410.021410-7.
Abstract:
Within the replica symmetry breaking framework developed by Mézard and Parisi we investigate the occurrence of structural glass transitions in a model of fluid characterized by hard sphere repulsion together with short-range attraction. This model is appropriate for the description of a class of colloidal suspensions. The transition line in the density-temperature plane displays a reentrant behavior, in agreement with mode coupling theory and recent molecular dynamics simulations. Quantitative differences are found, together with the absence of the predicted glass-glass transition at high density. We also perform a systematic study of the pure hard-sphere fluid in order to ascertain the accuracy of the adopted method and the convergence of the numerical procedure.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Colloids ; glass transition ; molecular dynamics method
Elenco autori:
A. Velenich, A. Parola, L. Reatto
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