Short and long range correlated motion observed in colloidal glasses and liquids

Abstract

We use a confocal microscope to examine the motion of individual particles in a dense colloidal suspension. Close to the glass transition, particle motion is strongly spatially correlated. The correlations decay exponentially with particle separation, yielding a dynamic length scale of O(2-3 sigma) (in terms of particle diameter sigma). This length scale grows modestly as the glass transition is approached. Further, the correlated motion exhibits a strong spatial dependence on the pair correlation function g(r). Motion within glassy samples is weakly correlated, but with a larger spatial scale for this correlation.

arXiv commentSubmitted to J Phys: Cond Mat; for Workshop on Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Glasses (Pisa, September 2006)

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