Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2010-06-23
Phys. Rev. E 82, 031503 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
11 pages; 10 figs
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.82.031503
We study the nonequilibrium aging dynamics in a system of quasi-hard spheres at large density by means of computer simulations. We find that, after a sudden quench to large density, the relaxation time initially increases exponentially with the age of the system. After a surprisingly large crossover time, the system enters the asymptotic aging regime characterized by a linear increase of the relaxation time with age. In this aging regime, single particle motion is strongly non-Fickian, with a mean-squared displacement increasing subdiffusively, associated to broad, non-Gaussian tails in the distribution of particle displacements. We find that the system ages through temporally intermittent relaxation events, and a detailed finite size analysis of these collective dynamic fluctuations reveals that these events are not spanning the entire system, but remain spatially localized.
Berthier Ludovic
Cipelletti Luca
Masri Djamel El
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