Glassy dynamics of dense particle assemblies on a spherical substrate
Soft Condensed Matter
2018-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We study by Molecular Dynamics simulation a dense one-component system of particles confined on a spherical substrate. We more specifically investigate the evolution of the structural and dynamical properties of the system when changing the control parameters, the temperature and the curvature of the substrate. We find that the dynamics becomes glassy at low temperature, with a strong slowdown of the relaxation and the emergence of dynamical heterogeneity. The prevalent local -fold order is frustrated by curvature and we analyze in detail the role of the topological defects in the statics and the dynamics of the particle assembly.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1803.00496,
title = {Glassy dynamics of dense particle assemblies on a spherical substrate},
author = {Julien-Piera Vest and Gilles Tarjus and Pascal Viot},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.00496},
year = {2018}
}
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15 pages, 18 Figures