β relaxation at the glass transition of hard-spherical colloids
- 1 May 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 43 (10) , 5442-5448
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.43.5442
Abstract
The glass transition studied for suspensions of colloidal particles through dynamical light-scattering experiments is analyzed within the mode-coupling theory for the supercooled liquid dynamics. These suspensions are treated as simple atomic systems with a hard-sphere interaction. The scaling properties predicted by the theory are verified. The shape of the master function for the β-relaxation region agrees well with the experimental data.Keywords
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