Fluctuations in an aging system: the absence of an effective temperature in the sol–gel transition of a quenched gelatin sample

Antoine Bérut 1 Artyom Petrosyan 1 Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano 1 Sergio Ciliberto 1
1 Phys-ENS - Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Lyon
Abstract : We study the fluctuations of a Brownian micro particle trapped with optical tweezers in a gelatin solution undergoing a fast local temperature quench below the sol-gel transition. Contrary to what was previously reported, we observe no anomalous fluctuations in the particle's position that could be interpreted in terms of an effective temperature. A careful analysis with ensemble averages shows only equilibrium-like properties for the fluctuations, even though the system is clearly aging. We also provide a detailed discussion on possible artifacts that could have been interpreted as an effective temperature, such as the presence of a drift or a mixing in time and ensemble averages in data analysis. These considerations are of general interest when dealing with non-ergodic or non-stationary systems.
Keywords : Disordered Systems Brownian Motion Gel colloïdal Ergodicity breaking
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Antoine Bérut, Artyom Petrosyan, Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano, Sergio Ciliberto. Fluctuations in an aging system: the absence of an effective temperature in the sol–gel transition of a quenched gelatin sample. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, IOP Publishing, 2015, 2015 (10), pp.P10020. ⟨10.1088/1742-5468/2015/10/P10020⟩. ⟨ensl-01192667⟩

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