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A Free Energy Landscape for Cage Breaking of Three Hard Disks
Gary L. Hunter, Eric R. Weeks
We investigate cage breaking in dense hard disk systems using a model of three Brownian disks confined within a circular corral. This system has a six-dimensional configuration spa…
Measuring every particle's size from three-dimensional imaging experiments
Rei Kurita, Eric R. Weeks
Often experimentalists study colloidal suspensions that are nominally monodisperse. In reality these samples have a polydispersity of 4-10%. At the level of an individual particle,…
Tracking Rotational Diffusion of Colloidal Clusters
Gary L. Hunter, Kazem V. Edmond, Mark T. Elsesser +1
We describe a novel method of tracking the rotational motion of clusters of colloidal particles. Our method utilizes rigid body transfor- mations to determine the rotations of a cl…
Incompressibility of polydisperse random close packed colloidal particles
Rei Kurita, Eric R. Weeks
We use confocal microscopy to study a random close packed sample of colloidal particles. We introduce an algorithm to estimate the size of each particle. Taking into account their…
On measuring colloidal volume fractions
Wilson C. K. Poon, Eric R. Weeks, C. Patrick Royall
Hard-sphere colloids are popular as models for testing fundamental theories in condensed matter and statistical physics, from crystal nucleation to the glass transition. A single p…
The Physics of the Colloidal Glass Transition
Gary L. Hunter, Eric R. Weeks
As one increases the concentration of a colloidal suspension, the system exhibits a dramatic increase in viscosity. Structurally, the system resembles a liquid, yet motions within…