https://doi.org/10.1007/s100510170322
Density-correlator signatures of the vulcanization transition
Department of Physics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street,
Urbana, Illinois 61801-3080, USA
Corresponding author: a goldbart@uiuc.edu
Received:
30
September
2000
Published online: 15 February 2001
Certain density correlators, measurable via various experimental techniques, are studied in the context of the vulcanization transition. It is shown that these correlators contain essential information about both the vulcanization transition and the emergent amorphous solid state. Contact is made with various physical ingredients that have featured in experimental studies of amorphous colloidal and gel systems and in theoretical studies of the glassy state.
PACS: 82.70.Gg – Gels and sols / 61.43.-j – Disordered solids / 64.70.Pf – Glass transitions
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2001
