Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9728067 | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications | 2005 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
We analyze in detail how the anomalous drift and diffusion properties of a particle evolving in an aging medium can be interpreted in terms of an effective temperature of the medium. From an experimental point of view, independent measurements of the mean-square displacement and of the mobility of a particle immersed in an aging medium such as a colloidal glass give access to an out of equilibrium generalized Stokes-Einstein relation, from which the effective temperature of the medium can eventually be deduced. We illustrate the procedure on a simple model with power-law behaviors.
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Authors
Noëlle Pottier,