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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Striker, Nele N.
• Lokteva, Irina
• Dartsch, Michael
• Dallari, Francesco
• Goy, Claudia
• Westermeier, Fabian
• Markmann, Verena
• Hövelmann, Svenja C.
• Grübel, Gerhard
• Lehmkühler, Felix

Titel

Dynamics and Time Scales of Higher-Order Correlations in Supercooled Colloidal Systems

Ist Teil von

• The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2023-05, Vol.14 (20), p.4719-4725

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Chemical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The dynamics and time scales of higher-order correlations are studied in supercooled colloidal systems. A combination of X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) and X-ray cross-correlation analysis (XCCA) shows the typical slowing of the dynamics of a hard sphere system when approaching the glass transition. The time scales of higher-order correlations are probed using a novel time correlation function g C , tracking the time evolution of cross-correlation function C. With an increasing volume fraction, the ratio of relaxation times of g C to the standard individual particle relaxation time obtained by XPCS increases from ∼0.4 to ∼0.9. While a value of ∼0.5 is expected for free diffusion, the increasing values suggest that the local orders within the sample are becoming more long-lived for larger volume fractions. Furthermore, the dynamics of local order is more heterogeneous than the individual particle dynamics. These results indicate that not only the presence but also the lifetime of locally favored structures increases close to the glass transition.