Rotational Diffusion in a Chain of Particles
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-11 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We study the coupled rotational diffusion in a two-particle chain on the basis of a Smoluchowski equation and calculate time-correlation functions that are measurable in an experiment. This might be used to explore hydrodynamic interactions in the limit where lubrication theory is valid.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0510631,
title = {Rotational Diffusion in a Chain of Particles},
author = {Holger Stark and Michael Reichert and Jerome Bibette},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0510631},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, 2 figures, to be published in J. Phys.: Condens. Matter