A Lattice Model for Colloidal Gels and Glasses

TL;DR

This paper introduces an exactly solvable lattice model for attractive colloids that captures key phenomena like gel formation, phase coexistence, and jamming, providing insights into the behavior of liquids, glasses, and colloidal systems.

Contribution

It presents a novel lattice model that is exactly solvable and reproduces complex phenomena observed in colloidal and glassy systems.

Findings

Reproduces gel formation and liquid-glass coexistence

Captures jamming and reentrant glass transition behaviors

Provides a unified framework for various colloidal phenomena

Abstract

We study a lattice model of attractive colloids. It is exactly solvable on sparse random graphs. As the pressure and temperature are varied it reproduces many characteristic phenomena of liquids, glasses and colloidal systems such as ideal gel formation, liquid-glass phase coexistence, jamming, or the reentrance of the glass transition.