Slow dynamics of a confined supercooled binary mixture. II. Q space analysis.
We report the analysis in the wave vector space of the density correlator of a Lennard-Jones binary mixture confined in a disordered matrix of soft spheres upon supercooling. In spite of the strong confining medium the behavior of the mixture is consistent with the mode-coupling theory predictions for bulk supercooled liquids. The relaxation times extracted from the fit of the density correlator to the stretched exponential function follow a unique power law behavior as a function of wave vector and temperature. The von Schweidler scaling properties are valid for an extended wave vector range around the peak of the structure factor. The parameters extracted in the present work are compared with the bulk values obtained in literature.
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Università Roma Tre, Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Unità di Ricerca Roma Tre and Democritos National Simulation Center, Via della Vasca, Navale 84, 00146 Roma, Italy. gallop@fis.uniroma3.it
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