Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2000-11-03
Phys.Rev.E 63, 31501 (2001)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
30 pages, 8 figures, Latex, submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.63.031501
We review the nature of glass transitions and the glasses arising from a square-well potential with a narrow and deep well. Our discussion is based on the Mode Coupling Theory, and the predictions of glasses that we make refer to the `ideal' glasses predicted by that theory. We believe that the square well system well represents colloidal particles with attractive interactions produced by grafted polymers, or depletion interactions. It has been recently shown that two types of glass, an attractive and a repulsive one, are predicted by MCT for this model. The former can form at quite low densities. Most of our attention is directed at the mechanical properties of the glasses predicted by this theory. In particular we calculate the elastic shear modulus at zero frequency and the longitudinal stress modulus in the long wavelength limit. Results for both are presented along the glass-liquid transition curves, and their interesting behaviour is explained in terms of the underlying physics of the system.
Dawson Kenneth A.
Foffi Giuseppe
Sciortino Francesco
Tartaglia Piero
Zaccarelli Emanuela
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