Abstract
Disks moving in a narrow channel have many features in common with the glassy behavior of hard spheres in three dimensions. In this paper we study the caging behavior of the disks that sets in at characteristic packing fraction ϕ(d). Four-point overlap functions similar to those studied when investigating dynamical heterogeneities have been determined from event-driven molecular dynamics simulations and the time-dependent dynamical length scale has been extracted from them. The dynamical length scale increases with time and, on the equilibration time scale, it is proportional to the static length scale associated with the zigzag ordering in the system, which grows rapidly above ϕ(d). The structural features responsible for the onset of caging and the glassy behavior are easy to identify as they show up in the structure factor, which we have determined exactly from the transfer-matrix approach.
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