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Force-velocity relation and density profiles for biased diffusion in an adsorbed monolayer

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-10-31 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

In this paper, which completes our earlier short publication [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 511 (2000)], we study dynamics of a hard-core tracer particle (TP) performing a biased random walk in an adsorbed monolayer, composed of mobile hard-core particles undergoing continuous exchanges with a vapor phase. In terms of an approximate approach, based on the decoupling of the third-order correlation functions, we obtain the density profiles of the monolayer particles around the TP and derive the force-velocity relation, determining the TP terminal velocity, V_{tr}, as the function of the magnitude of external bias and other system's parameters. Asymptotic forms of the monolayer particles density profiles at large separations from the TP, and behavior of V_{tr} in the limit of small external bias are found explicitly.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0004443,
  title  = {Force-velocity relation and density profiles for biased diffusion in an adsorbed monolayer},
  author = {O. Benichou and A. M. Cazabat and J. De Coninck and M. Moreau and G. Oshanin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0004443},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Latex, 31 pages, 3 figures

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