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Displacement correlations in a two-dimensional colloidal liquid and their relationship with shear strain correlations
Ooshida Takeshi1, Takeshi Matsumoto2, Michio Otsuki3
1Tottori University, Department of Mechanical and Physical Engineering, Tottori 680-8552, Japan.
Abstract:
Correlations of the displacement field in a two-dimensional model colloidal liquid are studied numerically and analytically. By calculating the displacement correlations and the shear strain correlations from the numerical data of particle simulations, the displacement field is shown to have nontrivial correlations, even in liquids that are only slightly glassy with the area fraction as low as 0.5. It is suggested analytically and demonstrated numerically that the displacement correlations are more informative than the shear correlations: the former behaves logarithmically with regard to the spatial distance at shorter scales, while the corresponding information is missing from the shear correlations. The logarithmic behavior of the displacement correlations is interpreted as manifesting a long-lived aspect of the cage effect.
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