Relaxation Scenarios in a Mixture of Large and Small Spheres: Dependence on the Size Disparity

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2006-08-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608601v2

Journal of Chemical Physics 125, 164507 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

Journal of Chemical Physics 125, 164507 (2006)

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2361286

We present a computational investigation on the slow dynamics of a mixture of large and small soft spheres. By varying the size disparity at a moderate fixed composition different relaxation scenarios are observed for the small particles. For small disparity density-density correlators exhibit moderate stretching. Only small quantitative differences are observed between dynamic features for large and small particles. On the contrary, large disparity induces a clear time scale separation between the large and the small particles. Density-density correlators for the small particles become extremely stretched, and display logarithmic relaxation by properly tuning the temperature or the wavevector. Self-correlators decay much faster than density-density correlators. For very large size disparity, a complete separation between self- and collective dynamics is observed for the small particles. Self-correlators decay to zero at temperatures where density-density correlations are frozen. The dynamic picture obtained by varying the size disparity resembles features associated to Mode Coupling transition lines of the types B and A at, respectively, small and very large size disparity. Both lines might merge, at some intermediate disparity, at a higher-order point, to which logarithmic relaxation would be associated. This picture resembles predictions of a recent Mode Coupling Theory for fluids confined in matrixes with interconnected voids [V. Krakoviack, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 94}, 065703 (2005)].

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