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EUROPHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 57, Issue 5, Pages 724-730Publisher
E D P SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1209/epl/i2002-00523-2
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We report a study of the diffusion of weakly interacting colloidal spheres in a one-dimensional groove using digital video microscopy. At a time much shorter than the direct interaction time, tau(I), the spheres diffuse according to Fick's law. The packing fraction dependence of the short-time diffusion coefficient is much stronger than in unbound bulk fluids, indicative of an enhanced hydrodynamic coupling between particles in a groove. At a later time (but still shorter than tau(I)) a subdiffusion ([Deltax(2) (tau)] proportional totau(gamma), where gamma < 1) evolves, suggesting that the hydrodynamic coupling induces the subdiffusion. Correlated motion of spheres is identified both in the trajectories of the spheres and in the magnitude of the velocity pair-correlation.
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