Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2006-06-02
Europhysics Letters 76 (2006-12-01) 972
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
Revised and improved, to appear in Europhys. Lett
Scientific paper
10.1209/epl/i2006-10357-4
We use time-resolved dynamic light scattering to investigate the slow dynamics of a colloidal gel. The final decay of the average intensity autocorrelation function is well described by $g\_2(q,\tau)-1 \sim \exp[-(\tau/\tau\_\mathrm{f})^p]$, with $\tau\_\mathrm{f} \sim q^{-1}$ and $p$ decreasing from 1.5 to 1 with increasing $q$. We show that the dynamics is not due to a continuous ballistic process, as proposed in previous works, but rather to rare, intermittent rearrangements. We quantify the dynamical fluctuations resulting from intermittency by means of the variance $\chi(\tau,q)$ of the instantaneous autocorrelation function, the analogous of the dynamical susceptibility $\chi\_4$ studied in glass formers. The amplitude of $\chi$ is found to grow linearly with $q$. We propose a simple --yet general-- model of intermittent dynamics that accounts for the $q$ dependence of both the average correlation functions and $\chi$.
Cipelletti Luca
Duri Agnes
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