Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2008-07-24
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
24 pages, 14 figures, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, in press
Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-8984/20/40/404210
We investigate stresses and particle motion during the start up of flow in a colloidal dispersion close to arrest into a glassy state. A combination of molecular dynamics simulation, mode coupling theory and confocal microscopy experiment is used to investigate the origins of the widely observed stress overshoot and (previously not reported) super-diffusive motion in the transient dynamics. A link between the macro-rheological stress versus strain curves and the microscopic particle motion is established. Negative correlations in the transient auto-correlation function of the potential stresses are found responsible for both phenomena, and arise even for homogeneous flows and almost Gaussian particle displacements.
Brader Joseph M.
Egelhaaf Stefan U.
Fuchs Madeleine
Horbach Juergen
Laurati M.
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