1. Slow anomalous dynamics close to MCT higher order singularities. A numerical study of short-range attractive colloids. (and some additional comments) Francesco Sciortino Email: francesco.sciortino@phys.uniroma1.it Titolo ! UCGMG Capri, June 2003

2. In collaboration with ….. Giuseppe Foffi Piero Tartaglia Emanuela Zaccarelli Wolfgang Goetze, Thomas Voigtman, Mattias Sperl Kenneth Dawson collaboratori

3. riassunto Outline of the talk -The MCT predictions for SW (repetita juvant) -Experiments -Simulations A3, A4 ? Glass-Glass ? Hopping Phenomena ? Gels in SW ?

4. The MCT predictions for short-range attractive square well MCT predictions for short range attractive square-well hard-sphere glass (repulsive) Short-range attractive glass fluid Type B A3A3  Fluid-Glass on cooling and heating !! Controlled by  Fabbian et al PRE R1347 (1999) Bergenholtz and Fuchs, PRE 59 5708 (1999)

5. Depletion Interactions Cartoons Depletion Interaction: A Cartoon

6. Science Pham et al Fig 1 Glass samples Fluid samples MCT fluid- glass line Fluid-glass line from experiments Temperature

7. Berths PRL (no polymer-with molymer) Colloidal-Polymer Mixture with Re-entrant Glass Transition in a Depletion Interactions T. Eckert and E. Bartsch Phys.Rev. Lett. 89 125701 (2002) HS (increasing  ) Adding short-range attraction T. Eckert and E. Bartsch

8. Barsh PRL (phi effect) Temperature

9. MCT IDEAL GLASS LINES (PY) - SQUARE WELL MODEL - CHANGING  PRE-63-011401-2001 Role of the width  A3A3 A4A4 V(r)

10. Isodiffusivity Isodiffusivity curves (MD Binary Hard Spheres) Zaccarelli et al PRE 66, 041402 (2002).

11. Tracing the A4 point Tracing the A 4 point: Theory and Simulation   D  1.897  PY -0.3922 T MD  0.5882T PY - 0.225 PY PY + transformation FS et al, cond-mat/0304192 PY-MCT overestimates ideal attractive glass T by a factor of 2

12. MSD logaritmico Slope 1

13.  q (t)=f q -h q [B (1) ln(t/  ) + B (2) q ln 2 (t/  )]. Phi(t) Same T and , different 

14. Phi hat  q (t  q (t)-f q )/h q ^

15.  X (t)=f X -h X [B (1) ln(t/  ) + B (2) X ln 2 (t/  )]. H(q)

16. Check List  Reentrance (glass-liquid-glass) (both experiments and simulations) √  A4 dynamics √ (simulation)  Glass-glass transition Check List

17. Glass glass theory low T high T t

18. Jumping into the glass aging Zaccarelli et al, cond-mat/0304100

19. Glass glass The attractive glass is not stable ! low T high T Zaccarelli et al, cond-mat/0304100

20. dfasdd Confronto tempi diversi

21.   Bond No-bond t

22. Phase diagram

23. Sq spinodal decomposition

24. A summary Nice model for theoretical and numerical simulation Very complex dynamics - benchmark for microscopic theories of super-cooled liquid and glasses (MCT does well!) Model for activated processes For the SW model, the gel line cannot be approached from equilibrium (what are the colloidal gels ? What is the interaction potential ?) A summary

25. Structural Arrest Transitions in Colloidal Systems with Short-Range Attractions Taormina, Italy, December 2003. A workshop organized by Sow-Hsin Chen (MIT) (sowhsin@mit.edu) Francesco Mallamace (U of Messina) (mallamac@mail.unime.it) Francesco Sciortino (U of Rome La Sapienza) (francesco.sciortino@phys.uniroma1.it) Purpose: To discuss, in depth, the recent progress on both the mode coupling theory predictions and their experimental tests on various aspects of structural arrest transitions in colloidal systems with short-range attractions. http://server1.phys.uniroma1.it/DOCS/TAO/ Pubblicita’ Advertisement

26. van Megen and S.M. Underwood Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 2766 (1993) HS e MCT  (t) HS (slow) dynamics

27. MCT fq BMLJ SiO 2

28. HS Hard Spheres at  =0.58, the system freezes forming disordered aggregates. MCT transition  =51.6% 1.W. van Megen and P.N. Pusey Phys. Rev. A 43, 5429 (1991) 2.U. Bengtzelius et al. J. Phys. C 17, 5915 (1984) 3.W. van Megen and S.M. Underwood Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 2766 (1993) Potential  V(r) r (No temperature, only density)

29. The mean square displacement (in the glass) The MSD in HS log(t) (0.1  ) 2 MSD

30. Non ergodicity parameters for the two glasses Wavevector dependence of the non ergodicity parameter (plateau) along the glass line Fabbian et al PRE R1347 (1999) Bergenholtz and Fuchs, PRE 59 5708 (1999)

31. Correlatori lungo la linea Density-density correlators along the iso-diffusivity locus

32. Non-ergodicity factor Non ergodicity parameter along the isodiffusivity curve from MD

33. Sub diffusive !  ~(0.1  ) 2 R2 lungo la linea

34. Volume Fraction Temperature Liquid Repulsive Glass Attractive Glass Gel ? Glass-glass transition Non-adsorbing -polymer concentration glass line Summary 2 (and open questions) ! Activated Processes ? Fig 2 of Natmat

35. Equations MCT ! Equazioni base della MCT

36. The cage effect (in HS) Explanation of the cage and analysis of correlation function Rattling in the cage Cage dynamics log(t)  (t) fqfq

37. Log(t) Mean squared displacement repulsive attractive (0.1  ) 2  Figure 1 di Natmat A model with two different localization length How does the system change from one (glass) to the other ?

38. What if …. Hard Spheres Potential Square-Well short range attractive Potential   Can the localization length be controlled in a different way ? What if we add a short-range attraction ? Attractive Glass   lowering T

39. Funzioni di correlazione MD simulation

40. Dati Thomas Giuseppe Comparing MD data and MCT predictions for binary HS See next talk by G. Foffi