Phys. Rev. E 79, 060104(R) (2009) [4 pages]Relaxation of a colloidal particle into a nonequilibrium steady state
We study the relaxation of a single colloidal sphere which is periodically driven between two nonequilibrium steady states. Experimentally, this is achieved by driving the particle along a toroidal trap imposed by scanned optical tweezers. We find that the relaxation time after which the probability distributions have been relaxed is identical to the decay of the velocity autocorrelation function measured in a steady state. In quantitative agreement with theoretical calculations the relaxation time strongly increases when driving the system further away from thermal equilibrium. © 2009 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.79.060104
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.79.060104
PACS:
05.40.−a, 05.70.Ln, 82.70.Dd
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