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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2001 Nov;64(5):052401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.64.052401. Epub 2001 Oct 22.

Dynamic scaling and freezing criteria in quasi-two-dimensional dispersions.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

R Pesché, M Kollmann, G Nägele

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA.

PMID: 11735989 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.64.052401

Abstract

We report on a Brownian dynamics simulation study of quasi-two-dimensional dispersions of colloidal spheres interacting by long-range electrostatic and dipolar magnetic forces. The calculated dynamic correlation functions are shown to obey dynamic scaling in terms of a characteristic relaxation time related to the mean particle distance and, due to hydrodynamic interactions, to the particle size. The dynamical freezing criterion of Löwen [Phys. Rev. E 53, R29 (1996)] is shown to be equivalent to a two-dimensional static freezing criterion.

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