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Structure and Relaxation Dynamics of a Colloidal Gel

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2015-06-25 v2

Abstract

Using molecular dynamics computer simulations we investigate the structural and dynamical properties of a simple model for a colloidal gel at low volume fraction. We find that at low T the system is forming an open percolating cluster, without any sign of a phase separation. The nature of the relaxation dynamics depends strongly on the length scale/wave-vector considered and can be directly related to the geometrical properties of the spanning cluster.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0507085,
  title  = {Structure and Relaxation Dynamics of a Colloidal Gel},
  author = {Emanuela Del Gado and Walter Kob},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0507085},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pages of EPL-tex; 4 figures, revised version