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接近二元胶态玻璃化转变的时空动力学不均匀性

Spatial and temporal dynamical heterogeneities approaching the binary colloidal glass transition

Takayuki Narumi, Scott V. Franklin, Kenneth W. Desmond, Michio Tokuyama, Eric R. Weeks

摘要:

我们研究了浓缩的二元胶体悬浮液,模型系统,它具有作为颗粒的体积分数$ϕ$增加的玻璃化转变。我们使用共聚焦显微镜直接观察粒子运动与$ϕ$范围从0.4到0.7的致密样品。我们的二元混合物具有颗粒直径比$d_S/d_L=1/1.3$和颗粒数量比$N_S/N_L=1.56$,选择它们以抑制结晶并实现长时间观察。在玻璃化转变附近,我们发现粒子动力学在空间和时间上都是不均匀的。大多数移动粒子出现在空间局部群体中。表征这些移动区域的长度尺度随着接近玻璃化转变而略微增长,所看到的最大长度尺度是$\sim 4$小粒径。我们还研究了使用动态磁化率$χ_4$的时间波动,并发现随着玻璃化转变的接近,波动增长。空间和时间的动力学异质性的分析表明,较小的物种在促进粒子重排中起着重要的作用。我们的样品中的玻璃化转变发生在$ϕ_g \approx 0.58$下,所有具有$ϕ>ϕ_g$的样品均观察到老化特征。

英文摘要:

We study concentrated binary colloidal suspensions, a model system which has a glass transition as the volume fraction $ϕ$ of particles is increased. We use confocal microscopy to directly observe particle motion within dense samples with $ϕ$ ranging from 0.4 to 0.7. Our binary mixtures have a particle diameter ratio $d_S/d_L=1/1.3$ and particle number ratio $N_S/N_L=1.56$, which are chosen to inhibit crystallization and enable long-time observations. Near the glass transition we find that particle dynamics are heterogeneous in both space and time. The most mobile particles occur in spatially localized groups. The length scales characterizing these mobile regions grow slightly as the glass transition is approached, with the largest length scales seen being $\sim 4$ small particle diameters. We also study temporal fluctuations using the dynamic susceptibility $χ_4$, and find that the fluctuations grow as the glass transition is approached. Analysis of both spatial and temporal dynamical heterogeneity show that the smaller species play an important role in facilitating particle rearrangements. The glass transition in our sample occurs at $ϕ_g \approx 0.58$, with characteristic signs of aging observed for all samples with $ϕ>ϕ_g$.

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