2007/11/30 by Emanuela Zaccarelli, Stefan Andreev, Francesco Sciortino +1 · 32 citations
Chemistry · Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Chemical physics #Chemistry #Colloid #Condensed matter physics #Glass properties and applications #Glass transition #Material Dynamics and Properties #Materials science #Particle (ecology) #Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics #Physical chemistry #Physics #Polymer #Statistical physics #Vitrification #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.100.195701
published in Physical Review Letters 100(19), 195701 (American Physical Society) · 4 pages, 4 figures, revised version
arxiv created 2008/04/18 · openalex publication_date 2008/05/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Vitrification in colloidal systems typically occurs at high densities driven by sharply varying, short-ranged interactions. The possibility of glassy behavior arising from smoothly varying, long-ranged particle interactions has received relatively little attention. Here we investigate the behavior of screened charged particles, and explicitly demonstrate that these systems exhibit glassy properties in the regime of low temperature and low density. Properties close to this low-density (Wigner) glass transition share many features with their hard-sphere counterparts, but differ in quantitative aspects that may be accounted for via microscopic theoretical considerations.