Amorphous–amorphous transformations under pressure are generally explained by
changes in the local structure from low-to higher-fold coordinated polyhedra,,–. However, as …

Motivated by old experiments on colloidal suspensions, we report molecular dynamics
simulations of assemblies of hard spheres, addressing crystallization and glass formation …

The transformation of flowing liquids into rigid glasses is thought to involve increasingly
cooperative relaxation dynamics as the temperature approaches that of the glass transition …

Monodisperse spherical colloidal particles can be used to simulate molecular motions and,
in particular, those which occur in the regions of phase transitions such as melting and …

As with most liquids, it is possible to supercool,,, water; this generally involves cooling the
liquid below its melting temperature (avoiding crystallization) until it eventually forms a glass …

Monodisperse colloidal suspensions of micrometre-sized spheres are playing an
increasingly important role as model systems to study, in real space, a variety of phenomena …

Unlike a crystal, a glassy solid state displays slow internal relaxation processes besides
vibrational modes even when structural (α) relaxation is frozen. The precise nature of such …

This paper describes a light-scattering study of the glass transition in nonaqueous
suspensions of sterically stabilized colloidal spheres. The observed phase behavior, fluid …

We investigate the dynamics of polydisperse hard spheres at high packing fractions ϕ. We
use extensive numerical simulations based on an experimentally-realistic particle size …

The glass transition, extensively studied in dense fluids, polymers or colloids, corresponds to
a marked evolution of equilibrium transport coefficients on a modest change of control …