Multiple glasses in asymmetric binary hard spheres

Published 20 October 2011 Europhysics Letters Association
, , Citation Th. Voigtmann 2011 EPL 96 36006 DOI 10.1209/0295-5075/96/36006

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Abstract

Multiple distinct glass states with different dynamic and mechanical properties occur in binary hard-sphere mixtures with constituents of very disparate sizes according to the mode-coupling theory of the glass transition (MCT), distinguished by considering whether small particles remain mobile or not, and whether small particles contribute significantly to perturb the big-particle structure or not. In the idealized case, the four different glasses are separated by well-defined glass and localization transitions that give rise to higher-order singularities involving logarithmic decay laws, and to anomalous power-law–like diffusion.

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10.1209/0295-5075/96/36006