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Lateral diffusion on a frozen random surface

Soft Condensed Matter 2020-10-06 v1

Abstract

The lateral diffusion coefficient of a Brownian particle on a two-dimensional random surface is studied in the quenched limit for which the surface configuration is time-independent. We start with the stochastic equation of motion for a Brownian particle on a fluctuating surface, which has been derived by Naji and Brown. The mean square displacement of the particle projected on a base plane is calculated exactly under the condition that the surface with a constant shape has no spatial correlation. We prove that the obtained lateral diffusion coefficient is in between the known upper and lower bounds.

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@article{arxiv.2010.01271,
  title  = {Lateral diffusion on a frozen random surface},
  author = {Takao Ohta and Shigeyuki Komura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.01271},
  year   = {2020}
}
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