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Nils Greinert
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Measurement of Effective Temperatures in an Aging Colloidal Glass
We study the thermal fluctuations of an optically confined probe particle, suspended in an aging colloidal suspension, as the suspension transforms from a viscous liquid into an elastic glass. The micron-sized bead forms a harmonic oscillator. By monitoring the equal-time fluctuations of the tracer, at two different laser powers, we determine the temperature of the oscillator, $T_{\text{o}}$. In the ergodic liquid the temperatures of the oscillator and its environment are equal while, in contrast, in a nonequilibrium glassy phase we find that $T_{\text{o}}$ substantially exceeds the bath temperature.
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