Tracer diffusivity in a time or space dependent temperature field
软凝聚态物质
2009-11-07 v1 统计力学
摘要
The conventional assumption that the self-diffusion coefficient of a small tracer can be obtained by a local and instantaneous application of Einstein's relation in a temperature field with spatial and temporal heterogeneity is revisited. It is shown that hydrodynamic fluctuations contribute to the self-diffusion tensor in a universal way, i.e. independent of the size and shape of the tracer. The hydrodynamic contribution is anisotropic--it reflects knowledge of the global anisotropy in the temperature profile, leading to anisotropic self-diffusion tensor for a spherical tracer. It is also retarded--it creates memory effects during the diffusion process due to hydrodynamic interactions.
引用
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0206500,
title = {Tracer diffusivity in a time or space dependent temperature field},
author = {Ramin Golestanian and Armand Ajdari},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0206500},
year = {2009}
}
备注
4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Europhysics Letters