胶体硬球：成就、挑战与未解之谜
Colloidal Hard Spheres: Triumphs, Challenges and Mysteries
AI总结：
本文综述了胶体硬球模型在平衡态（相行为、界面、受限）与非平衡态（沉降、玻璃化、成核）方面的研究成果，强调实验、理论与模拟的协同作用及其对理解物质的重要意义。
摘要：
硬球作为模型体系的简单性具有欺骗性。尽管粒子仅通过体积排斥相互作用，但这已足以涌现出丰富的静态与动力学现象，使该模型成为实现对物质全面理解的重要目标。此外，虽然真实的胶体悬浮液通常由复杂相互作用支配，Pusey和Van Megen [Nature 320 340--342 (1986)] 证明，经过适当调控的悬浮液可表现出类硬球行为，从而为这一著名理论模型提供了宝贵的实验补充。因此，胶体硬球既是一种独立存在的材料，也是一个平台，可在此平台上对简单材料所表现出的现象进行细致探索。这些不同的用途促成了实验、理论与计算机模拟之间的特殊协同作用。本文回顾了关于硬球的广泛研究工作，范围从其平衡性质（如相行为、界面和受限效应）到其所表现出的一些非平衡现象（如沉降、玻璃形成和成核）。
英文摘要：
The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static and dynamical phenomena to emerge, making the model an important target for achieving a comprehensive understanding of matter. In addition, while real colloidal suspensions are typically governed by complex interactions, Pusey and Van Megen [Nature 320 340--342 (1986)] demonstrated that suitably tuned suspensions result in hard-sphere like behavior, thus bringing a valuable experimental complement to the celebrated theoretical model. Colloidal hard spheres are thus both a material in their own right and a platform upon which phenomena exhibited by simple materials can be explored in great detail. These various purposes enable a particular synergy between experiment, theory and computer simulation. Here we review the extensive body of work on hard spheres, ranging from their equilibrium properties such as phase behavior, interfaces and confinement to some of the non--equilibrium phenomena they exhibit such as sedimentation, glass formation and nucleation.
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