Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
Jun 2000
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STATISTICAL PHYSICS: Third Tohwa University International Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 519, pp. 3-10 (2000).
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
1
Solubility, Segregation, And Mixing, Phase Separation, Glass Transitions, Order-Disorder Transformations, Statistical Mechanics Of Model Systems, Colloids
Scientific paper
Particle dynamics have been measured by dynamic light scattering for mixtures of colloidal particles with hard sphere interactions. The diameter ratio (small:large) is 0.6. The optical properties of the suspended particles are such that the relative contrast of the two species is very sensitive to temperature, a feature we exploit to obtain the three partial intermediate scattering functions. The glass transition is identified by the onset of structural arrest, or the arrest of the alpha process, on the time scale of the experiment. This is observed in the one-component suspension at the packing fraction 0.57. Introduction of the smaller particles, at fixed packing fraction, releases the alpha process, ie, the glass melts. Increasing the fraction of smaller particles speeds up the alpha process but interestingly, increases its amplitude. .
Megen van W.
Williams Stephen R.
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