Philippe, Adrian-Marie Truzzolillo, Domenico Galvan-Myoshi, Julian Dieudonné-George, Philippe Trappe, Véronique Berthier, Ludovic Cipelletti, Luca 2018-04-11 We explore the glassy dynamics of soft colloids using microgels and charged particles interacting by steric and screened Coulomb interactions, respectively. In the supercooled regime, the structural relaxation time τα of both systems grows steeply with volume fraction, reminiscent of the behavior of colloidal hard spheres. Computer simulations confirm that the growth of τα on approaching the glass transition is independent of particle softness. By contrast, softness becomes relevant at very large packing fractions when the system falls out of equilibrium. In this nonequilibrium regime, τα depends surprisingly weakly on packing fraction, and time correlation functions exhibit a compressed exponential decay consistent with stress-driven relaxation. The transition to this novel regime coincides with the onset of an anomalous decrease in local order with increasing density typical of ultrasoft systems. We propose that these peculiar dynamics results from the combination of the nonequilibrium aging dynamics expected in the glassy state and the tendency of colloids interacting through soft potentials to refluidize at high packing fractions. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/307183 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/307183/files/tra_gts.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.040601 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Physical Review E. - 2018, vol. 97, no. 4, p. 040601 info:eu-repo/classification/udc/53 Glass transition of soft colloids http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501