Scaling Function for the Diffusion Coefficient of a Critical Fluid in a Finite Geometry
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
The long wavelength diffusion coefficient of a critical fluid confined between two parallel plates separated by a distance L is strongly affected by the finite size. Finite size scaling leads us to expect that the vanishing of the diffusion coefficient as \xi^{-1} for \xi<<L, \xi being the correlation length, would crossover to \L^{-1} for \xi>>L. We show that this is not strictlytrue. There is a logarthmic scaling violation. We construct a Kawasaki like scaling function that connects the thermodynamic regime to the extreme critical (\xi>>L) regime.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0307073,
title = {Scaling Function for the Diffusion Coefficient of a Critical Fluid in a Finite Geometry},
author = {Palash Das and Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0307073},
year = {2009}
}
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