Aging of a homogeneously quenched colloidal glass-forming liquid

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2010 Dec;82(6 Pt 1):061504. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.061504. Epub 2010 Dec 14.

Abstract

The nonequilibrium self-consistent generalized Langevin equation theory of colloid dynamics is used to describe the nonstationary aging processes occurring in a suddenly quenched model colloidal liquid with hard-sphere plus short-ranged attractive interactions, whose static structure factor and van Hove function evolve irreversibly from the initial conditions before the quench to a final dynamically arrested state. The comparison of our numerical results with available simulation data are highly encouraging.