By using event-driven molecular dynamics simulation, we investigate effects
of varying the area fraction of the smaller component on structure,
compressibility factor and dynamics of the highly size-asymmetric binary
hard-disk liquids. We find that the static pair correlations of the large disks
are only weakly perturbed by adding small disks. The higher-order static
correlations of the large disks, by contrast, can be strongly affected. The
compressibility factor of the system first decreases and then increases upon
increasing the area fraction of the small disks and separating different
contributions to it allows to rationalize this non-monotonic phenomenon.
Furthermore, adding small disks can influence dynamics of the system in
quantitative and qualitative ways. For the large disks, the structural
relaxation time increases monotonically with increasing the area fraction of
the small disks at low and moderate area fractions of the large disks. In
particular, "reentrant" behavior appears at sufficiently high area fractions of
the large disks, strongly resembling the reentrant glass transition in
short-ranged attractive colloids and the inverted glass transition in binary
hard spheres with large size disparity. By tuning the area fraction of the
small disks, relaxation process for the small disks shows concave-to-convex
crossover and logarithmic decay behavior, as found in other binary mixtures
with large size disparity. Moreover, diffusion of both species is suppressed by
adding small disks. Long-time diffusion for the small disks shows
power-law-like behavior at sufficiently high area fractions of the small disks,
which implies precursors of a glass transition for the large disks and a
localization transition for the small disks. Therefore, our results demonstrate
the generic dynamic features in highly size-asymmetric binary mixtures.Comment: 9 pages, 12 figure