Multiple Glassy States in a Simple Model System

@article{Pham2002MultipleGS,
  title={Multiple Glassy States in a Simple Model System},
  author={Khoa N. Pham and Antonio Manuel Puertas and Johan Bergenholtz and Stefan U. Egelhaaf and Abdellatif Moussa{\"i}d and Peter N. Pusey and Andrew B. Schofield and M. E. Cates and Matthias Fuchs and Wilson C K Poon},
  journal={Science},
  year={2002},
  volume={296},
  pages={104 - 106}
}
Experiments, theory, and simulation were used to study glass formation in a simple model system composed of hard spheres with short-range attraction (“sticky hard spheres”). The experiments, using well-characterized colloids, revealed a reentrant glass transition line. Mode-coupling theory calculations and molecular dynamics simulations suggest that the reentrance is due to the existence of two qualitatively different glassy states: one dominated by repulsion (with structural arrest due to… 
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