Fig. 5
From: Quantitative earthquake-like statistical properties of the flow of soft materials below yield stress
Flow behavior of colloidal glass of Laponite nanodiscs and statistical analysis of the quakes. a Data from a completely different sample with 5 wt\(\%\) concentration of Laponite clay for two different d with \(\sigma =15\) Pa (at 26 °C) are shown. With this sample, \(\dot{\phi }\) sometime shows multiple bursts (arrows with marks A, B, C in \(d=10\ \upmu\)m data). b Log–log plot of \(P(E)\) versus E. Blue line has slope −1.5. c Waiting time distribution plot. Straight line has slope −1. We have considered full time window of the data for \(P(E)\) and \(P(\Delta t)\) plots. d \(| C({\tau }_{{\rm{s}}},T)| /\sqrt{T}\) versus T plot for both d’s; wavelet transformation for \(d=10\ \upmu\)m data set was done considering the burst near A (\({\sim} 4300\) s). Red dashed line has slope −1. The results for the other bursts near B and C are shown in Supplementary Figs. 10 and 11.
