Percolation and phase separation in a fluid of sticky spheres
Percolation and phase separation in a fluid of sticky spheres
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 10th February 2003
- Speaker: Mark Miller (FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics Amsterdam The Netherlands)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
A wide variety of systems, from silica suspensions to copolymer micelles, interact through attractive forces whose range is very short in comparison with the particle size. Computer simulation of such systems is difficult, but offers a valuable complement to experiments and theoretical predictions. In this talk I will introduce the archetypal short-range model: Baxter's adhesive hard spheres. I will then show how the competition between percolation and fluid-fluid separation in this model can be studied by computer simulation.
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