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Systematic derivation of coarse-grained fluctuating hydrodynamic equations for many Brownian particles under non-equilibrium condition

Statistical Mechanics 2009-03-02 v1 Soft Condensed Matter

Abstract

We study the statistical properties of many Brownian particles under the We study the statistical properties of many Brownian particles under the influence of both a spatially homogeneous driving force and a periodic potential with period \ell in a two-dimensional space. In particular, we focus on two asymptotic cases, int\ell_{\rm int} \ll \ell and int\ell_{\rm int} \gg \ell, where int\ell_{\rm int} represents the interaction length between two particles. We derive fluctuating hydrodynamic equations describing the evolution of a coarse-grained density field defined on scales much larger than \ell for both the cases. Using the obtained equations, we calculate the equal-time correlation functions of the density field to the lowest order of the interaction strength. We find that the system exhibits the long-range correlation of the type rdr^{-d} (d=2d=2) for the case int\ell_{\rm int} \gg \ell, while no such behavior is observed for the case int\ell_{\rm int}\ll \ell.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0603645,
  title  = {Systematic derivation of coarse-grained fluctuating hydrodynamic equations for many Brownian particles under non-equilibrium condition},
  author = {Takenobu Nakamura and Shin-ichi Sasa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0603645},
  year   = {2009}
}