Activated Bond-Breaking Processes Preempt the Observation of a Sharp Glass-Glass Transition in Dense Short-Ranged Attractive Colloids

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Zaccarelli, Emanuela ^a   Foffi, Giuseppe ^a   Sciortino, Francesco ^a   Tartaglia, Piero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; BONDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLASS TRANSITION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS;

GLASS;

EID: 0142025397     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.108301     Document Type: Article

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