English

Generalized Green-Kubo formulas for fluids with impulsive, dissipative, stochastic and conservative interactions

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We present a generalization of the Green-Kubo expressions for thermal transport coefficients μ\mu in complex fluids of the generic form, μ=μ+0dtV1<Jϵexp(tL)J>0\mu= \mu_\infty +\int^\infty_0 dt V^{-1} < J_\epsilon \exp(t {\cal L}) J >_0, i.e. a sum of an instantaneous transport coefficient μ\mu_\infty, and a time integral over a time correlation function in a state of thermal equilibrium between a current JJ and a transformed current JϵJ_\epsilon. The streaming operator exp(tL)\exp(t{\cal L}) generates the trajectory of a dynamical variable J(t)=exp(tL)JJ(t) =\exp(t{\cal L}) J when used inside the thermal average <...>0<...>_0. These formulas are valid for conservative, impulsive (hard spheres), stochastic and dissipative forces (Langevin fluids), provided the system approaches a thermal equilibrium state. In general μ0\mu_\infty \neq 0 and JϵJJ_\epsilon \neq J, except for the case of conservative forces, where the equality signs apply. The most important application in the present paper is the hard sphere fluid.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0509555,
  title  = {Generalized Green-Kubo formulas for fluids with impulsive, dissipative, stochastic and conservative interactions},
  author = {M. H. Ernst and R. Brito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0509555},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

14 pages, no figures. Version 2: expanded Introduction and section II specifying the classes of fluids covered by this theory. Some references added and typos corrected