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AC Electrokinetic Phenomena Generated by Microelectrode Structures
Published on: July 28, 2008
Nonequilibrium noise in electrophoresis: the microion wind
Suropriya Saha1, Sriram Ramaswamy1
1Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012 India and TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, 21 Brundavan Colony, Osman Sagar Road, Narsingi, Hyderabad 500 075 India.
Abstract:
A colloid supported against gravitational settling by means of an imposed electric field behaves, on average, as if it is at equilibrium in a confining potential [T. M. Squires, J. Fluid Mech. 443, 403 (2001)]. We show, however, that the effective Langevin equation for the colloid contains a nonequilibrium noise source, proportional to the field, arising from the thermal motion of dissolved ions. The position fluctuations of the colloid show strong, experimentally testable signatures of nonequilibrium behavior, including a highly anisotropic, frequency-dependent "effective temperature" obtained from the fluctuation-dissipation ratio.
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