2016
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2016/07/074011
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Cluster structure and dynamics in gels and glasses

Abstract: Abstract. The dynamical arrest of gels is the consequence of a well defined structural phase transition, leading to the formation of a spanning cluster of bonded particles. The dynamical glass transition, instead, is not accompanied by any clear structural signature. Nevertheless, both transitions are characterized by the emergence of dynamical heterogeneities. Reviewing recent results from numerical simulations, we discuss the behavior of dynamical heterogeneities in different systems and show that a clear co… Show more

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“…In those papers, the authors considered the m = 2 KA model on a square twodimensional lattice with periodic boundary conditions on all sides, but with a homogeneous applied field in the x direction, such that a particle moves in the negative x direction with a lower probability than in the other three directions. In the extreme case in which the particle cannot move against the field, the average current is given by (14) which in the steady state under the no correlations approximation may be expressed using the diffusion coefficient…”
Section: A Kob-andersen Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In those papers, the authors considered the m = 2 KA model on a square twodimensional lattice with periodic boundary conditions on all sides, but with a homogeneous applied field in the x direction, such that a particle moves in the negative x direction with a lower probability than in the other three directions. In the extreme case in which the particle cannot move against the field, the average current is given by (14) which in the steady state under the no correlations approximation may be expressed using the diffusion coefficient…”
Section: A Kob-andersen Modelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…By construction, the equilibrium state of these models is trivial. However their dynamics are cooperatively slow and they exhibit many hallmarks of glassy systems, such as dynamical heterogeneities [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14], nonexponential relaxation [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20], and ageing [21][22][23], and in certain situations may exhibit an ergodicity-breaking jamming transition, beyond which a finite fraction of the particles are permanently frozen [24][25][26][27][28].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…At low densities, they may also undergo gelation by increasing the mutual interactions among particles, prompting long-lived physical (reversible) bonding between particles, which thus facilitates the formation of percolated networks capable of sustaining weak mechanical stresses [29][30][31][32].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Striking similarities, but also fundamental differences, have been highlighted between the microscopic dynamics and the mechanical response of both gels and glasses [30,31].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…To this aim it is useful to consider the presence of Dynamic Heterogeneities (DHs), groups of particles dynamically correlated over a time scale of the order of the relaxation time. In particular, the Dynamic Susceptibility χ 4 (k, t), commonly used to measure DHs, shows a different behaviour on approaching the two transitions [8]. For chemical gels, it was theoretically shown and numerically verified that at small wave vector (i.e.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%