Critical behavior of colloid-polymer mixtures in random porous media
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We show that the critical behavior of a colloid-polymer mixture inside a random porous matrix of quenched hard spheres belongs to the universality class of the random-field Ising model. We also demonstrate that random-field effects in colloid-polymer mixtures are surprisingly strong. This makes these systems attractive candidates to study random-field behavior experimentally.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0610872,
title = {Critical behavior of colloid-polymer mixtures in random porous media},
author = {R. L. C. Vink and K. Binder and H. Loewen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0610872},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett