Stress Relaxation in Aging Soft Colloidal Glasses

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2009-05-05

arxiv.org/abs/0905.0536v2

Soft Matter, 2010, 6, 1462 - 1466

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

13 pages, 5 figures

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We investigate the stress relaxation behavior on the application of step strains to aging aqueous suspensions of the synthetic clay Laponite. The stress exhibits a two-step decay, from which the slow relaxation modes are extracted as functions of the sample ages and applied step strain deformations. Interestingly, the slow time scales that we estimate show a dramatic enhancement with increasing strain amplitudes. We argue that the system ends up exploring the deeper sections of its energy landscape following the application of the step strain.

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