Recoil of a driven tracer in a correlated medium
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| author | Pruszczyk, Marcin Piotr Venturelli, Davide Gambassi, Andrea |
| author_facet | Pruszczyk, Marcin Piotr Venturelli, Davide Gambassi, Andrea |
| contents | We study the stochastic dynamics of a Brownian particle after it is suddenly released from a harmonic trap moving with constant velocity through a fluctuating correlated medium, described by a scalar Gaussian field with relaxational dynamics and in contact with a thermal bath. We show that, after the release, the particle exhibits recoil, i.e., it moves in the direction opposite to the drag. As expected, this effect vanishes if the field equilibrates instantaneously. The final value of the average position of the particle is reached algebraically in time in the case of conserved dynamics of the field or for non-conserved dynamics at the critical point. Our predictions are expected to be relevant, at least qualitatively, to driven colloidal particles in liquid media close to critical points. |
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| spellingShingle | Recoil of a driven tracer in a correlated medium Pruszczyk, Marcin Piotr Venturelli, Davide Gambassi, Andrea Statistical Mechanics Soft Condensed Matter We study the stochastic dynamics of a Brownian particle after it is suddenly released from a harmonic trap moving with constant velocity through a fluctuating correlated medium, described by a scalar Gaussian field with relaxational dynamics and in contact with a thermal bath. We show that, after the release, the particle exhibits recoil, i.e., it moves in the direction opposite to the drag. As expected, this effect vanishes if the field equilibrates instantaneously. The final value of the average position of the particle is reached algebraically in time in the case of conserved dynamics of the field or for non-conserved dynamics at the critical point. Our predictions are expected to be relevant, at least qualitatively, to driven colloidal particles in liquid media close to critical points. |
| title | Recoil of a driven tracer in a correlated medium |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07895 |