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Generalization of Langevin Dynamics from Spatio-Temporal Dressed Dynamics Perspective
1Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Abstract:
Understanding multiscale dynamics characteristics has been the holy grail in a broad range of scientific disciplines from physics, chemistry, to biology, and beyond. The seminal Langevin equation successfully unravels remarkable details of Brownian motion dynamics involving stochastic collisions from the fluidic medium. However, extraordinary phenomena beyond the scope of Langevin dynamics were observed to exhibit a series of multiscale dynamic features in recent years. Here, an explicit spatio-temporal coupled kernel is developed to provide the microscopic account for delicate dynamic coupling between particle and medium in the dressed dynamics perspective. This methodology is applied to investigate an aqueous solvation shell model with an explicit spatial boundary to illustrate the significance of spatial and temporal coupling, leading to a general temporal profile of dressed dynamics over 12 orders of magnitude in time In particular, the time-resolved viscosity is formulated to address the remarkable enhancement of viscosity measured by the liquid cell electron microscopy. The understanding of dressed dynamics processes will be greatly enriched by further studies on the detailed dynamics that manifests the microscopic inhomogeneity of medium.
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