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Simultaneous Brownian Motion of N Particles in a Temperature Gradient

J. M. Rubí, P. Mazur

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9706077

Abstract

A system of N Brownian particles suspended in a nonuniform heat bath is treated as a thermodynamic system whith internal degrees of freedom, in this case their velocities and coordinates. Applying the scheme of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, one then easily obtains the Fokker-Planck equation for simultaneous Brownian motion of N particles in a temperature gradient. This equation accounts for couplings in the motion as a result of hydrodynamic interactions between particles.

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