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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics Année : 2010

Subdiffusion and intermittent dynamic fluctuations in the aging regime of concentrated hard spheres

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We study the nonequilibrium aging dynamics in a system of quasi-hard spheres at large density by means of computer simulations. We find that, after a sudden quench to large density, the relaxation time initially increases exponentially with the age of the system. After a surprisingly large crossover time, the system enters the asymptotic aging regime characterized by a linear increase of the relaxation time with age. In this aging regime, single particle motion is strongly non-Fickian, with a mean-squared displacement increasing subdiffusively, associated to broad, non-Gaussian tails in the distribution of particle displacements. We find that the system ages through temporally intermittent relaxation events, and a detailed finite size analysis of these collective dynamic fluctuations reveals that these events are not spanning the entire system, but remain spatially localized.

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hal-00522291 , version 1 (30-09-2010)

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Djamel El Masri, Ludovic Berthier, Luca Cipelletti. Subdiffusion and intermittent dynamic fluctuations in the aging regime of concentrated hard spheres. Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2010, 82, pp.031503. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.82.031503⟩. ⟨hal-00522291⟩
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