Coupled dynamics in binary mixtures of colloidal Yukawa systems

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Main Authors: Weidig, Daniel, Wagner, Joachim
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author Weidig, Daniel
Wagner, Joachim
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Wagner, Joachim
contents The dynamical behavior of binary mixtures consisting of highly charged colloidal particles is studied by means of Brownian dynamics simulations. We investigate differently sized, but identically charged particles with nearly identical interactions between all species in highly dilute suspensions. Different short-time self-diffusion coefficients induce, mediated by electrostatic interactions, a coupling of both self and collective dynamics of differently sized particles: The long-time self-diffusion coefficients of a larger species are increased by the presence of a more mobile, smaller species and vice versa. Similar coupling effects are observed in collective dynamics where in addition to the time constant of intermediate scattering function's initial decay its functional form, quantified by exponents of a stretched exponential decay, are influenced by the presence of a differently sized species. We provide a systematic analysis of coupling effects in dependence on the ratio of sizes, number densities, and the strength of electrostatic interactions.
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spellingShingle Coupled dynamics in binary mixtures of colloidal Yukawa systems
Weidig, Daniel
Wagner, Joachim
Soft Condensed Matter
The dynamical behavior of binary mixtures consisting of highly charged colloidal particles is studied by means of Brownian dynamics simulations. We investigate differently sized, but identically charged particles with nearly identical interactions between all species in highly dilute suspensions. Different short-time self-diffusion coefficients induce, mediated by electrostatic interactions, a coupling of both self and collective dynamics of differently sized particles: The long-time self-diffusion coefficients of a larger species are increased by the presence of a more mobile, smaller species and vice versa. Similar coupling effects are observed in collective dynamics where in addition to the time constant of intermediate scattering function's initial decay its functional form, quantified by exponents of a stretched exponential decay, are influenced by the presence of a differently sized species. We provide a systematic analysis of coupling effects in dependence on the ratio of sizes, number densities, and the strength of electrostatic interactions.
title Coupled dynamics in binary mixtures of colloidal Yukawa systems
topic Soft Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15659