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An Analog Macroscopic Technique for Studying Molecular Hydrodynamic Processes in Dense Gases and Liquids
Published on: December 4, 2017
Ensemble fluctuations matter for variances of macroscopic variables
G George1, L Klochko1, A N Semenov1
1Institut Charles Sadron, Université de Strasbourg & CNRS, 23 rue du Loess, 67034, Strasbourg Cedex, France.
Abstract:
Extending recent work on stress fluctuations in complex fluids and amorphous solids we describe in general terms the ensemble average [Formula: see text] and the standard deviation [Formula: see text] of the variance [Formula: see text] of time series [Formula: see text] of a stochastic process x(t) measured over a finite sampling time [Formula: see text]. Assuming a stationary, Gaussian and ergodic process, [Formula: see text] is given by a functional [Formula: see text] of the autocorrelation function h(t). [Formula: see text] is shown to become large and similar to [Formula: see text] if [Formula: see text] corresponds to a fast relaxation process. Albeit [Formula: see text] does not hold in general for non-ergodic systems, the deviations for common systems with many microstates are merely finite-size corrections. Various issues are illustrated for shear-stress fluctuations in simple coarse-grained model systems.
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