Gel to glass transition in simulation of a valence-limited colloidal system.
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چکیده
We numerically study a simple model for thermoreversible colloidal gelation in which particles can form reversible bonds with a predefined maximum number of neighbors. We focus on three and four maximally coordinated particles, since in these two cases the low valency makes it possible to probe, in equilibrium, slow dynamics down to very low temperatures T. By studying a large region of T and packing fraction phi we are able to estimate both the location of the liquid-gas phase separation spinodal and the locus of dynamic arrest, where the system is trapped in a disordered nonergodic state. We find that there are two distinct arrest lines for the system: a glass line at high packing fraction, and a gel line at low phi and T. The former is rather vertical (phi controlled), while the latter is rather horizontal (T controlled) in the phi-T plane. Dynamics on approaching the glass line along isotherms exhibit a power-law dependence on phi, while dynamics along isochores follow an activated (Arrhenius) dependence. The gel has clearly distinct properties from those of both a repulsive and an attractive glass. A gel to glass crossover occurs in a fairly narrow range in phi along low-T isotherms, seen most strikingly in the behavior of the nonergodicity factor. Interestingly, we detect the presence of anomalous dynamics, such as subdiffusive behavior for the mean squared displacement and logarithmic decay for the density correlation functions in the region where the gel dynamics interferes with the glass dynamics.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of chemical physics
دوره 124 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006