When gel and glass meet: a mechanism for multistep relaxation.
We use computer simulations to study the dynamics of a physical gel at high densities where gelation and the glass transition interfere. We report and provide detailed physical understanding of complex relaxation patterns for time-correlation functions which generically decay in a three-step process. For certain combinations of parameters we find logarithmic decays of the correlators and subdiffusive particle motion.
Chaudhuri
Pinaki
P
Laboratoire PMCN, Université Lyon 1, UMR CNRS 5586, Université de Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne, France.
Berthier
Ludovic
L
Hurtado
Pablo I
PI
Kob
Walter
W