Colloid-polymer mixtures in random porous media: Finite size scaling and connected versus disconnected susceptibilities

Details Colloid-polymer mixtures in random porous media: Finite size scaling and connected versus disconnected susceptibilities Colloid-polymer mixtures in random porous media: Finite size scaling and connected versus disconnected susceptibilities

2008-04-11

arxiv.org/abs/0804.1967v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

24 pages, CODEF II conference proceedings paper, Bonn, Germany (2008)

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/20/40/404222

As a generic model for liquid-vapour type transitions in random porous media, the Asakura-Oosawa model for colloid-polymer mixtures is studied in a matrix of quenched spheres using extensive Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. Since such systems at criticality, as well as in the two-phase region, exhibit lack of self-averaging, the analysis of MC data via finite size scaling requires special care. After presenting the necessary theoretical background and the resulting subtleties of finite size scaling in random-field Ising-type systems, we present data on the order parameter distribution (and its moments) as a function of colloid and polymer fugacities for a broad range of system sizes, and for many (thousands) realizations of the porous medium. Special attention is paid to the connected and disconnected susceptibilities, and their respective critical behavior. We show that both susceptibilities diverge at the critical point, and we demonstrate that this is compatible with the predicted scenario of random-field Ising universality.

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