An oscillating electric field with thermal noise increases the rotational diffusion and drives rotation in a dipole.
Here we consider a dipole in a viscous medium under the influence of an oscillating electric field and thermal noise. Because of the very low Reynolds numbers involved in molecular processes, we considered overdamped Langevin dynamics. As a consequence the inertia term becomes negligible. We observed a great increase in the rotational diffusion and also net rotation for some values of the parameters.
Fornés
José A
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Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Goiás, C.P. 131, 74001-970 Goiânia, GO, Brazil. fornes@fis.ufg.br