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Shear viscosity of strongly coupled Yukawa systems on finite length scales
1Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545.
Physical Review Letters
|February 15, 2001
Abstract:
The Yukawa shear viscosity has been calculated using nonequilibrium molecular dynamics. Near the viscosity minimum, we find exponential decay consistent with the Navier-Stokes equation, with significant deviations on finite length scales for larger viscosity values. The viscosity is determined to be nonlocal on a scale length consistent with the correlation length, revealing the length scales necessary for obtaining transport coefficients in the hydrodynamic limit by nonequilibrium molecular dynamics methods. Our results are quasiuniversal with respect to excess entropy for excess entropies well below unity.