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Using microrheology to study dynamical heterogeneities
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Dynamical heterogeneities are one of the hallmarks of supercooled liquids, and their properties and relevance have been studied with theory, simulations and experiments. In this work, we propose to monitor the dynamics of tracer particles (passive microrheology) to analyze the dynamical heterogeneities in a system of hard colloids close to the glass transition density, using Langevin dynamics simulations and mode coupling theory. Different observables, typical in the study of the dynamical heterogeneities are adapted to be calculated from the trajectory of a single tracer particle. The tracer dynamics shows a transition from a regime where it is most decoupled from the bath for small tracer size to a strong coupling regime for large tracers. Both theory and simulations show that the non-Gaussian parameter of the tracer is maximal for tracer sizes at the crossover between both regimes, and is highly dependent on the bath density. The dynamic susceptibility is also studied, but this parameter shows a minor dependence on both the tracer size or the bath density. Finally, the existence of regions with different mobility is also studied with microrheology. Although the tracer trajectory indeed shows stages with increased mobility, the estimated size of the regions decreases with the bath density, contrary to the results from cluster analysis in the bulk.
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