Mode-coupling theory predictions for a limited valency attractive square-well model
Abstract
Recently we have studied, using numerical simulations, a limited valency model, i.e. an attractive square well model with a constraint on the maximum number of bonded neighbors. Studying a large region of temperatures and packing fractions , we have estimated the location of the liquid-gas phase separation spinodal and the loci of dynamic arrest, where the system is trapped in a disordered non-ergodic state. Two distinct arrest lines for the system are present in the system: a {\it (repulsive) glass} line at high packing fraction, and a {\it gel} line at low and . The former is essentially vertical (-controlled), while the latter is rather horizontal (-controlled) in the plane. We here complement the molecular dynamics results with mode coupling theory calculations, using the numerical structure factors as input. We find that the theory predicts a repulsive glass line -- in satisfactory agreement with the simulation results -- and an attractive glass line which appears to be unrelated to the gel line.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0605201,
title = {Mode-coupling theory predictions for a limited valency attractive square-well model},
author = {E. Zaccarelli and I. Saika-Voivod and A. J. Moreno and E. La Nave and S. V. Buldyrev and F. Sciortino and P. Tartaglia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0605201},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, 6 figures. To appear in J. Phys. Condens. Matter, special issue: "Topics in Application of Scattering Methods for Investigation of Structure and Dynamics of Soft Condensed Matter", Fiesole, November 2005