Numerical study of the glass glass transition in short-ranged attractive colloids
Abstract
We report extensive numerical simulations in the glass region for a simple model of short-ranged attractive colloids, the square well model. We investigate the behaviour of the density autocorrelation function and of the static structure factor in the region of temperatures and packing fractions where a glass-glass transition is expected according to theoretical predictions. We strengthen our observations by studying both waiting time and history dependence of the numerical results. We provide evidence supporting the possibility that activated bond-breaking processes destabilize the attractive glass, preventing the full observation of a sharp glass-glass kinetic transition.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
- Pub Date:
- October 2004
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0953-8984/16/42/004
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0406011
- Bibcode:
- 2004JPCM...16S4849Z
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter;
- Condensed Matter - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
- E-Print:
- 15 pages, 9 figures