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Critical behavior of colloid-polymer mixtures in random porous media

R. L. C. Vink, K. Binder, H. Loewen

cond-mat.softarXiv:cond-mat/0610872

Abstract

We show that the critical behavior of a colloid-polymer mixture inside a random porous matrix of quenched hard spheres belongs to the universality class of the random-field Ising model. We also demonstrate that random-field effects in colloid-polymer mixtures are surprisingly strong. This makes these systems attractive candidates to study random-field behavior experimentally.

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