Orientational relaxation in a dispersive dynamic medium: Generalization of the Kubo-Ivanov-Anderson jump-diffusion model to include fractional environmental dynamics

Seki, K. and Bagchi, B and Tachiya, M (2008) Orientational relaxation in a dispersive dynamic medium: Generalization of the Kubo-Ivanov-Anderson jump-diffusion model to include fractional environmental dynamics. In: Physical Review E, 77 . 031505:1-10.

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Abstract

The Ivanov-Anderson model (and an earlier treatment by Kubo) envisages a decay of the orientational correlation by random but large amplitude molecular jumps, as opposed to infinitesimal small jumps assumed in Brownian diffusion. Recent computer simulation studies on water and viscous liquids have shown that large amplitude motions may indeed be more of a rule than exception. Existing theoretical studies on jump diffusion mostly assume an exponential (Poissonian) waiting time distribution for jumps, thereby again leading to an exponential decay. Here we extend the existing formalism of Ivanov and Anderson to include an algebraic waiting time distribution between two jumps. As a result, the first (l=1) and second (l=2) rank orientational time correlation functions show the same long time power law, but their short time decay behavior is quite different. The predicted Cole-Cole plot of dielectric relaxation reproduces various features of non-Debye behavior observed experimentally. We also developed a theory where both unrestricted small jumps and large angular jumps coexist simultaneously. The small jumps are shown to have a large effect on the long time decay, particularly in mitigating the effects of algebraic waiting time distribution, and in giving rise to an exponential-like decay, with a time constant, surprisingly, less than the time constant that arises from small amplitude decay alone.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Physical Review E
Publisher:	American Physical Society
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to American Physical Society.
Department/Centre:	Division of Chemical Sciences > Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit
Date Deposited:	17 Apr 2008
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:44
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/13736

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