Anisotropic memory effects in confined colloidal diffusion

Details Anisotropic memory effects in confined colloidal diffusion Anisotropic memory effects in confined colloidal diffusion

2008-05-21

arxiv.org/abs/0805.3227v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

5 pages, 5 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.240604

The motion of an optically trapped sphere constrained by the vicinity of a wall is investigated at times where hydrodynamic memory is significant. First, we quantify, in bulk, the influence of confinement arising from the trapping potential on the sphere's velocity autocorrelation function $C(t)$. Next, we study the splitting of $C(t)$ into $C_\parallel(t)$ and $C_\perp(t)$, when the sphere is approached towards a surface. Thereby, we monitor the crossover from a slow $t^{-3/2}$ long-time tail, away from the wall, to a faster $t^{-5/2}$ decay, due to the subtle interplay between hydrodynamic backflow and wall effects. Finally, we discuss the resulting asymmetric time-dependent diffusion coefficients.

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