Ultra-fast quenching of binary colloidal suspensions in an external magnetic field

Details Ultra-fast quenching of binary colloidal suspensions in an external magnetic field Ultra-fast quenching of binary colloidal suspensions in an external magnetic field

2008-11-10

arxiv.org/abs/0811.1498v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures

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An ultra-fast quench is applied to binary mixtures of superparamagnetic colloidal particles confined at a two-dimensional water-air interface by a sudden increase of an external magnetic field. This quench realizes a virtually instantaneous cooling which is impossible in molecular systems. Using real-space experiments, the relaxation behavior after the quench is explored. Local crystallites with triangular and square symmetry are formed on different time scales and the correlation peak amplitude of the small particles evolves nonmonotonically in time in agreement with Brownian dynamics computer simulations.

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