Nonsingular behavior near the colloidal glass transition

Michio Tokuyama

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2002, vol. 315, issue 1, 321-329

Abstract: A heuristic hypothesis is given for the colloidal glass transition on the basis of the theoretical analyses of experimental data from a unified viewpoint obtained recently by the present author. Three regions, a liquid region, a supercooled liquid region, and a glass region, are distinguished. No divergence of the α- and β-relaxation times is found at the glass transition, although the kinetic and thermodynamic-like properties of the colloidal liquid exhibit drastic changes in the supercooled region.

Keywords: Colloidal glass transition; Nonlinear density fluctuations; Non-singular behavior; Spatial heterogeneities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01223-2

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