Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Multiple distinct glass states with different dynamic and mechanical properties occur in binary hard-sphere mixtures with constituents of very disparate sizes according to the mode-coupling theory of the glass transition (MCT), distinguished by considering whether small particles remain mobile or not, and whether small particles contribute significantly to perturb the big-particle structure or not. In the idealized case, the four different glasses are separated by well-defined glass and localization transitions that give rise to higher-order singularities involving logarithmic decay laws, and to anomalous power-law–like diffusion.
Source: Europhysics Letters (EPL)
Author: Th. Voigtmann
Language: English
Subfield: Materials Chemistry
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Awards: G721923711, G816307624
OpenAlex ID: W2072214533