2004/09/30 by Vincent Krakoviack, V. Krakoviack · 23 citations
Chemical Engineering · Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Material Dynamics and Properties #Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics #Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies #cond-mat.dis-nn
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.94.065703
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 065703 (2005) · 5 pages, 1 added figure. To appear in Physical Review Letters
arxiv created 2005/01/31 · openalex publication_date 2005/02/18 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We derive an extension of the mode-coupling theory for the liquid-glass transition to a class of models of confined fluids, where the fluid particles evolve in a disordered array of interaction sites. We find that the corresponding equations are similar to those describing the bulk, implying that the methods of investigation which were developed there are directly transferable to this new domain of application. We then compute the dynamical phase diagram of a simple model system and show that new and nontrivial transition scenarios, including reentrant glass transitions and higher-order singularities, can be predicted from the proposed theory.