Résumé
Europhys. Lett., 52, 277(2000) We use molecular dynamics computer simulations to investigate the relaxation
dynamics of a binary Lennard-Jones liquid confined in a narrow pore. We find
that the average dynamics is strongly influenced by the confinement in that
time correlation functions are much more stretched than in the bulk. By
investigating the dynamics of the particles as a function of their distance
from the wall, we can show that this stretching is due to a strong dependence
of the relaxation time on this distance, i.e. that the dynamics is spatially
very heterogeneous. In particular we find that the typical relaxation time of
the particles close to the wall is orders of magnitude larger than the one of
particles in the center of the pore.