{
  "id": "1010.1411",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2010-10-07T12:20:45.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-10-07T12:20:45.000Z",
  "title": "Shear-induced criticality near a liquid-solid transition of colloidal suspensions",
  "authors": [
    "Masamichi J. Miyama",
    "Shin-ichi Sasa"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 8 figures",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. E 83, 020401(R) (2011)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevE.83.020401",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "cond-mat.soft"
  ],
  "abstract": "We investigate colloidal suspensions under shear flow through numerical experiments. By measuring the time-correlation function of a bond-orientational order parameter, we find a divergent time scale near a transition point from a disordered fluid phase to an ordered fluid phase, where the order is characterized by a nonzero value of the bond-orientational order parameter. We also present a phase diagram in the $(\\rho, \\dot{\\gamma}^{\\mathrm{ex}})$ plane, where $\\rho$ is the density of the colloidal particles and $\\dot{\\gamma}^{\\mathrm{ex}}$ is the shear rate of the solvent. The transition line in the phase diagram terminates at the equilibrium transition point, while a critical region near the transition line vanishes continuously as $\\dot{\\gamma}^{\\mathrm{ex}} \\rightarrow 0$.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2010-10-07T12:20:45.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "82.70.-y",
      "64.60.Cn",
      "83.10.Mj",
      "83.50.Ax"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "colloidal suspensions",
      "liquid-solid transition",
      "shear-induced criticality",
      "bond-orientational order parameter",
      "phase diagram terminates"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review E",
      "year": 2011,
      "month": "Feb",
      "volume": 83,
      "number": 2,
      "pages": "020401"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2011PhRvE..83b0401M"
    }
  }
}