Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2005-10-27
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
4 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
Colloidal dispersions of Laponite platelets are known to age slowly from viscous sols to colloidal glasses. We follow this aging process by monitoring the diffusion of probe particles embedded in the sample via dynamic light scattering. Our results show that the time-dependent diffusion of the probe particles scales with their size. This implies that the fluctuation-dissipation theorem can be generalized for this out-of-equilibrium system by replacing the bath temperature with an effective temperature. Simultaneous dynamic rheological measurements reveal that this effective temperature increases as a function of aging time and frequency. This suggests the existence of two regimes: at probed time scales longer than the characteristic relaxation time of the Laponite dispersion, the system thermalizes with the bath, whereas at shorter time scales, the system is out-of-equilibrium with an effective temperature greater than the bath temperature.
Kalur G. C.
Raghavan Raju S.
Strachan†‡ Douglas R.
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