Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2008-11-26
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
9 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
By combining aspects of the coherent and self intermediate scattering functions, measured by dynamical light scattering on a suspension of hard sphere-like particles, we show that the arrest of particle number density fluctuations spreads from the position of the main structure factor peak. Taking the velocity auto-correlation function into account we propose that as density fluctuations are arrested the system's ability to respond to diffusing momentum currents is impaired and, accordingly, the viscosity increases. From the stretching of the coherent intermediate scattering function we read a quantitative manifestation of the undissipated thermal energy, the source of those, ergodicity restoring, processes that short-circuit the sharp transition to a perfect glass.
Bryant Gary
Martinez Vincent A.
Megen van W.
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