Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2003-01-30
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
submitted to Journal of Chemical Physics
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.1564047
Within Kirkwood theory, we study the translational diffusion coefficient of a single polymer chain in dilute solution, and focus on the small difference between the short--time Kirkwood value $D^{(K)}$ and the asymptotic long--time value $D$. We calculate this correction term by highly accurate large--scale Brownian Dynamics simulations, and show that it is in perfect agreement with the rigorous variational result $D < D^{(K)}$, and with Fixman's Green--Kubo formula, which is re--derived. This resolves the puzzle posed by earlier numerical results (Rey {\em et al.}, Macromolecules 24, 4666 (1991)), which rather seemed to indicate $D > D^{(K)}$; the older data are shown to have insufficient statistical accuracy to resolve this question. We then discuss the Green--Kubo integrand in some detail. This function behaves very differently for pre--averaged vs. fluctuating hydrodynamics, as shown for the initial value by analytical considerations corroborated by numerical results. We also present further numerical data on the chain's statics and dynamics.
Duenweg Burkhard
Liu Bo
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