Structure and Relaxation Dynamics of a Colloidal Gel Auteur(s): Del gado Emanuela, Kob W. (Article) Publié: Europhysics Letters (Epl), vol. 72 (6) p.1032-1038 (2005) Texte intégral en Openaccess : Ref HAL: hal-00366084_v1 Ref Arxiv: cond-mat/0507085 Ref. & Cit.: NASA ADS Exporter : BibTex | endNote Résumé: Using molecular dynamics computer simulations we investigate the structuraland dynamical properties of a simple model for a colloidal gel at low volumefraction. We find that at low T the system is forming an open percolatingcluster, without any sign of a phase separation. The nature of the relaxationdynamics depends strongly on the length scale/wave-vector considered and can bedirectly related to the geometrical properties of the spanning cluster. Commentaires: 7 pages of EPL-tex; 4 figures, revised version |