This paper compares simulation and experiment to verify how a hard-sphere fluid is different from a suspension of hard-sphere colloids near the glass transition at 6% polydispersity. This is done by performing extensive molecular-dynamic simulations and by analyzing the resultant mean-square...

The experimental and the simulation results for the mean-square displacements in eight different systems (four suspensions of colloids and four molecular systems) are analyzed near their glass transitions by the mean-field theory recently proposed. The dependence of various physical quantities...

A statistical-mechanical theory of slow dynamics near the glass transition in two kinds of glass-forming systems, (M) molecular systems and (S) suspensions of colloids, is presented from a unified point of view based on the Tokuyama–Mori projection operator method. The exact diffusion...

Two types of projection-operator methods, Mori type and Tokuyama–Mori type, are tested for studying the slow dynamics of a single particle in complex systems near the glass transition. From a unified point of view based on the mean-field theory recently proposed by the present author, the...