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Friction and noise for a probe in a nonequilibrium fluid
Christian Maes1, Stefano Steffenoni2
1Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Abstract:
We investigate the fluctuation dynamics of a probe around a deterministic motion induced by interactions with driven particles. The latter constitute the nonequilibrium medium in which the probe is immersed and is modeled as overdamped Langevin particle dynamics driven by nonconservative forces. The expansion that yields the friction and noise expressions for the reduced probe dynamics is based on linear response around a time-dependent nonequilibrium condition of the medium. The result contains an extension of the second fluctuation-dissipation relation between friction and noise for probe motion in a nonequilibrium fluid.
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