Title

Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Self-Propelled Hard Rods

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Aparna Baskaran, Syracuse University
M. Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Date

2-19-2010

Keywords

condensed matter, statistical mechanics

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

Using tools of nonequilibirum mechanics, we study a model of self-propelled hard rods on a substrate in two dimensions to quantify the interplay of self-propulsion and excluded-volume effects. We derive of a Smoluchowski equation for the configurational probability density of self-propelled rods that contains several modifications as compared to the familiar Smoluchowski equation for thermal rods. As a side-product of out work, we also present a purely dynamical derivation of the Onsager form of the mean field excluded volume interaction among thermal hard rods.

Additional Information

This manuscript is from arXiv.org, for more information see http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.3831

Recommended Citation

arXiv:1002.1002.3831v1

Source

harvested from arXiv.org

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