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Publications [#337552] of Patrick Charbonneau

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  1. Charbonneau, B; Charbonneau, P; Szamel, G, A microscopic model of the Stokes-Einstein relation in arbitrary dimension., The Journal of chemical physics, vol. 148 no. 22 (June, 2018), pp. 224503 [doi]
    (last updated on 2024/03/28)

    Abstract:
    The Stokes-Einstein relation (SER) is one of the most robust and widely employed results from the theory of liquids. Yet sizable deviations can be observed for self-solvation, which cannot be explained by the standard hydrodynamic derivation. Here, we revisit the work of Masters and Madden [J. Chem. Phys. 74, 2450-2459 (1981)], who first solved a statistical mechanics model of the SER using the projection operator formalism. By generalizing their analysis to all spatial dimensions and to partially structured solvents, we identify a potential microscopic origin of some of these deviations. We also reproduce the SER-like result from the exact dynamics of infinite-dimensional fluids.