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Thermo-kinetic approach of single-particles and clusters involving anomalous diffusion under viscoelastic response

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We present a thermo-kinetic description of anomalous diffusion of single-particles and clusters in a viscoelastic medium in terms of a non-Markovian diffusion equation involving memory functions. The scaling behaviour of these functions is analyzed by considering hydrodynamics and cluster-size space random walk arguments. We explain experimental results on diffusion of Brownian particles in the cytoskeleton, in cluster-cluster aggregation and in a suspension of micelles.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0701518,
  title  = {Thermo-kinetic approach of single-particles and clusters involving anomalous diffusion under viscoelastic response},
  author = {I. Santamaria-Holek and J. M. Rubi and A. Gadomski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0701518},
  year   = {2007}
}

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To be published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B