Analyses of kinetic glass transition in short-range attractive colloids based on time-convolutionless mode-coupling theory
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Takayuki Narumi1, Michio Tokuyama2
1Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka 813-8503, Japan.
Abstract:
For short-range attractive colloids, the phase diagram of the kinetic glass transition is studied by time-convolutionless mode-coupling theory (TMCT). Using numerical calculations, TMCT is shown to recover all the remarkable features predicted by the mode-coupling theory for attractive colloids: the glass-liquid-glass reentrant, the glass-glass transition, and the higher-order singularities. It is also demonstrated through the comparisons with the results of molecular dynamics for the binary attractive colloids that TMCT improves the critical values of the volume fraction. In addition, a schematic model of three control parameters is investigated analytically. It is thus confirmed that TMCT can describe the glass-glass transition and higher-order singularities even in such a schematic model.
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