Mean square displacement for Brownian motion under a square-well potential and non-Einstein behaviour

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作者
Morita, A
机构
[1] Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153, Komaba, Meguro-ku
来源
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL | 1996年 / 29卷 / 20期
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10.1088/0305-4470/29/20/010
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We have obtained the mean square displacement for Brownian motion of particles in a fluid under a square-well potential. It is shown that for a deep well, there are short- and long-time regimes where the mean square displacement is proportional to time as well as a long intermediate transition stage. Even for a very mild case where the ratio A of the potential height to the thermal energy is 3 and its width is 5, we need time t of 10(10)/D to recover Einstein's relation, which is unpractically too long where D is diffusion coefficient. In the short time regime where an escape process from the well dominates the considerably slow dynamics, the mean square displacement is approximately given by 4e(-A)Dt with the exponential factor appearing in theory of chemical reactions.
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页码:6525 / 6529
页数:5
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