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- When gel and glass meet: A mechanism for multistep relaxation doi link

Auteur(s): Chaudhuri Pinaki, Berthier L., Hurtado Pablo, Kob W.

(Article) Publié: Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, And Soft Matter Physics, vol. 81 p.040502 (2010)
Texte intégral en Openaccess : arXiv


PMID 20481669
Ref Arxiv: 0911.5269
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.040502
WoS: 000277265700007
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Résumé:

We use computer simulations to study the dynamics of a physical gel at high densities where gelation and the glass transition interfere. We report and provide detailed physical understanding of complex relaxation patterns for time correlation functions which generically decay in a three-step process. For certain combinations of parameters we find logarithmic decays of the correlators and subdiffusive particle motion.



Commentaires: 4 pages, 5 figures Journal: Phys. Rev. E 81, 040502 (2010)