Tracer diffusivity in a time or space dependent temperature field

Details Tracer diffusivity in a time or space dependent temperature field Tracer diffusivity in a time or space dependent temperature field

2002-06-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0206500v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Europhysics Letters

Scientific paper

10.1209/epl/i2002-00113-x

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.

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