Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2002-12-20
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.67.021502
Within the mode-coupling theory for idealized glass transitions, we study the evolution of structural relaxation in binary mixtures of hard spheres with size ratios $\delta$ of the two components varying between 0.5 and 1.0. We find two scenarios for the glassy dynamics. For small size disparity, the mixing yields a slight extension of the glass regime. For larger size disparity, a plasticization effect is obtained, leading to a stabilization of the liquid due to mixing. For all $\delta$, a decrease of the elastic moduli at the transition due to mixing is predicted. A stiffening of the glass structure is found as is reflected by the increase of the Debye-Waller factors at the transition points. The critical amplitudes for density fluctuations at small and intermediate wave vectors decrease upon mixing, and thus the universal formulas for the relaxation near the plateau values describe a slowing down of the dynamics upon mixing for the first step of the two-step relaxation scenario. The results explain the qualitative features of mixing effects reported by Williams and van Megen [Phys. Rev. E \textbf{64}, 041502 (2001)] for dynamical light-scattering measurements on binary mixtures of hard-sphere-like colloids with size ratio $\delta=0.6$.
G"otze W.
Voigtmann Th.
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