Mobility and Diffusion of a Tagged Particle in a Driven Colloidal Suspension

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2010-11-15

arxiv.org/abs/1011.3536v1

EPL 92, 58001 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

submitted to EPL

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/92/58001

We study numerically the influence of density and strain rate on the diffusion and mobility of a single tagged particle in a sheared colloidal suspension. We determine independently the time-dependent velocity autocorrelation functions and, through a novel method, the response functions with respect to a small force. While both the diffusion coefficient and the mobility depend on the strain rate the latter exhibits a rather weak dependency. Somewhat surprisingly, we find that the initial decay of response and correlation functions coincide, allowing for an interpretation in terms of an 'effective temperature'. Such a phenomenological effective temperature recovers the Einstein relation in nonequilibrium. We show that our data is well described by two expansions to lowest order in the strain rate.

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