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Mode-coupling theory predictions for a limited valency attractive square-well model

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-11 v1

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 TT and packing fractions ϕ\phi, 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 ϕ\phi and TT. The former is essentially vertical (ϕ\phi-controlled), while the latter is rather horizontal (TT-controlled) in the (ϕT)(\phi-T) 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.

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@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}
}

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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

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