Nonlinear Thermophoresis beyond Local Equilibrium Criterion

Details Nonlinear Thermophoresis beyond Local Equilibrium Criterion Nonlinear Thermophoresis beyond Local Equilibrium Criterion

2006-09-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0609554v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

9 pages, 4 Figures

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Thermophoresis (thermodiffusion, Soret effect) moves molecules along thermal gradients. We measure its phenomenological linear drift relation by single particle tracking in convection-free settings. For moderate thermal gradients, drift velocity depends linearly on the gradient. However, for strong thermal gradients, we find a nonlinear dependence of the drift on the applied gradient for large Soret coefficient and particle radius. Interestingly, the onset of the nonlinearity coincides with a local disequilibrium of the particle. Nonlinear thermophoresis resolves several fundamental contradictions between thermophoretic experiments and theory.

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