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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 25: Brownian Motion and Transport (jointly with DY, CPP)

TT 25.2: Vortrag

Montag, 16. März 2015, 15:30–15:45, BH-N 243

Three-dimensional Brownian motion of 3D-shaped particles — •Felix Höfling — Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, and Institute for Theoretical Physics IV, Universität Stuttgart, Germany

The three-dimensional (3D) Brownian motion of colloidal particles of general 3D-shape is considered in the overdamped limit. First for an ellipsoidal particle, the Smoluchowski equation for the joint distribution of position and orientation is solved exactly through an expansion in moments. The non-Gaussian parameter is shown to simultaneously quantify the anisotropic positional diffusion and the orientational diffusion. The results are applied further to the interpretation of scattering experiments (e.g., dynamic light scattering) on suspensions of active (self-propelled) and passive nanoparticles.

Second, a screw-like shape, paradigmatic for chiral particles, is studied which gives rise to a strong hydrodynamic coupling between rotation and translation. Coupled Langevin equations for the six degrees of freedom are used to calculate auto- and cross-correlation functions of first and second order exactly. A suitable displacement–orientation correlation is shown to display a maximum at intermediate times, from which the strength of the rotation–translation coupling can be inferred. Finally, the above findings are generalised for a hydrodynamic friction matrix of general form, which encodes an arbitrary particle shape. The analytical results are supported by numerical simulations of the corresponding stochastic equations.