The complex behavior of confined fluids arising due to a competition between layering and local packing can be disentangled by considering quasi-confined liquids, where periodic boundary conditions along the confining direction restore translational invariance. This system provides a means to investigate the interplay of the relevant length scales of the confinement and the local order. We provide a mode-coupling theory of the glass transition (MCT) for quasi-confined liquids and elaborate an efficient method for the numerical implementation. The nonergodicity parameters in MCT are compared to computer-simulation results for a hard-sphere fluid. We evaluate the nonequilibrium-state diagram and investigate the collective intermediate scattering function. For both methods, nonmonotonic behavior depending on the confinement length is observed.

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玻璃化转变附近准约束胶体硬球液体的动力学特性

由于分层和局部填充之间的竞争而引起的受限流体的复杂行为可以通过考虑准受限液体来解开，其中沿限制方向的周期性边界条件恢复平移不变性。该系统提供了一种调查相关长度尺度与当地秩序相互作用的方法。我们为准受限液体提供了玻璃化转变 (MCT) 的模式耦合理论，并阐述了一种有效的数值实现方法。MCT 中的非遍历性参数与硬球流体的计算机模拟结果进行了比较。我们评估非平衡状态图并研究集体中间散射函数。对于这两种方法，观察到取决于限制长度的非单调行为。