Glasses in hard spheres with short-range attraction

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2003-08-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0308250v1

Phys. Rev. E 69, 011503 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

22 pages, 18 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.69.011503

We report a detailed experimental study of the structure and dynamics of glassy states in hard spheres with short-range attraction. The system is a suspension of nearly-hard-sphere colloidal particles and non-adsorbing linear polymer which induces a depletion attraction between the particles. Observation of crystallization reveals a re-entrant glass transition. Static light scattering shows a continuous change in the static structure factors upon increasing attraction. Dynamic light scattering results, which cover 11 orders of magnitude in time, are consistent with the existence of two distinct kinds of glasses, those dominated by inter-particle repulsion and caging, and those dominated by attraction. Samples close to the `A3 point' predicted by mode coupling theory for such systems show very slow, logarithmic dynamics.

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