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A classical long-time tail in a driven granular fluid

Soft Condensed Matter 2019-02-19 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

I derive a mode-coupling theory for the velocity autocorrelation function, \psi(t), in a fluid of randomly driven inelastic hard spheres far from equilibrium. With this, I confirm a conjecture from simulations that the velocity autocorrelation function decays algebraically, \psi(t) ~ t^{-3/2}, if momentum is conserved. I show that the slow decay is due to the coupling to transverse currents.

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@article{arxiv.1308.3991,
  title  = {A classical long-time tail in a driven granular fluid},
  author = {W. Till Kranz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.3991},
  year   = {2019}
}

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10 pages

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