Dynamic properties of quasi-confined colloidal hard-sphere liquids near the glass transition. (1st September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Schrack, Lukas; Petersen, Charlotte F; Jung, Gerhard; Caraglio, Michele; Franosch, Thomas
• Is Part Of: Journal of statistical mechanics. (2020:Sep.)
• Publication Date: 2020-09-01
• Subjects: glasses (structural) -- mode coupling theory -- structural correlations; Statistical mechanics -- Periodicals; Mechanics -- Statistical methods -- Periodicals; 530.1305
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/ababfe
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-5468

Abstract

Abstract: The complex behavior of confined fluids arising due to a competition between layering and local packing can be disentangled by considering quasi-confined liquids, where periodic boundary conditions along the confining direction restore translational invariance. This system provides a means to investigate the interplay of the relevant length scales of the confinement and the local order. We provide a mode-coupling theory of the glass transition (MCT) for quasi-confined liquids and elaborate an efficient method for the numerical implementation. The nonergodicity parameters in MCT are compared to computer-simulation results for a hard-sphere fluid. We evaluate the nonequilibrium-state diagram and investigate the collective intermediate scattering function. For both methods, nonmonotonic behavior depending on the confinement length is observed.