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SCIENCE
Volume 343, Issue 6178, Pages 1493-1496Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1248091
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- Sid W. Richardson Foundation
- R. A. Welch Foundation [F-1258]
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Measurement of the instantaneous velocity of Brownian motion of suspended particles in liquid probes the microscopic foundations of statistical mechanics in soft condensed matter. However, instantaneous velocity has eluded experimental observation for more than a century since Einstein's prediction of the small length and time scales involved. We report shot-noise-limited, high-bandwidth measurements of Brownian motion of micrometer-sized beads suspended in water and acetone by an optical tweezer. We observe the hydrodynamic instantaneous velocity of Brownian motion in a liquid, which follows a modified energy equipartition theorem that accounts for the kinetic energy of the fluid displaced by the moving bead. We also observe an anticorrelated thermal force, which is conventionally assumed to be uncorrelated.
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