Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2008-03-13
Phys. Rev. E 78, 011506 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
8 pages, 5 figs
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.78.011506
We study the response of probe particles to weak constant driving in kinetically constrained models of glassy systems, and show that the probe's response can be non-monotonic and give rise to negative differential mobility: increasing the applied force can reduce the probe's drift velocity in the force direction. Oth er significant non-linear effects are also demonstrated, such as the enhancement with increasing force of the probe's fluctuations away from the average path, a phenomenon known in other contexts as giant diffusivity. We show that these res ults can be explained analytically by a continuous-time random walk approximatio n where there is decoupling between persistence and exchange times for local dis placements of the probe. This decoupling is due to dynamic heterogeneity in the glassy system, which also leads to bimodal distributions of probe particle disp lacements. We discuss the relevance of our results to experiments.
Chandler David
Garrahan Juan P.
Jack Robert L.
Kelsey David
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