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Long-time diffusion and energy transfer in polydisperse mixtures of particles with different temperatures

Soft Condensed Matter 2021-07-14 v2 Statistical Mechanics Biological Physics

Abstract

Evidence suggests that the transport rate of a passive particle at long timescales is enhanced due to interactions with the surrounding active ones in a size- and composition-dependent manner. Using a system of particles with different temperatures, we probe these effects in dilute solutions and derive long-time friction and self-diffusion coefficients as functions of volume fractions, sizes and temperatures of particles in d=2d=2 and 3 dimensions. Thus, we model excluded-volume interactions for nonequilibrium systems but also extend the scope to short-range soft potentials and compare our results to Brownian-dynamics simulations. Remarkably, we show that both viscosity and energy flux display a nonlinear dependence on size. The simplicity of our formalism allows to discover various interesting scenarios that can be relevant for biological systems and active colloids.

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@article{arxiv.2103.06659,
  title  = {Long-time diffusion and energy transfer in polydisperse mixtures of particles with different temperatures},
  author = {Efe Ilker and Michele Castellana and Jean-François Joanny},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.06659},
  year   = {2021}
}

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