摘要
The process of attachment of a deformable polystyrene colloidal particle to a planar substrate shows features of slow relaxation and aging, typically observed in many-body disordered and glassy systems. This slow dynamics is attributed to the presence of polymeric tethers constituting a few internal degrees of freedom. The effects of these few degrees of freedom are revealed by a Nyquist analysis of the data that demonstrate the existence of only a few discernible basins of attraction as the system reaches the ground state and thus provides a minimal model of complexity and glassy dynamics.
- 出版日期2010-10-14