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@ARTICLE{Lettinga:893816,
author = {Lettinga, M. Paul and Alvarez, Laura and Korculanin,
Olivera and Grelet, Eric},
title = {{W}hen bigger is faster: {A} self-{V}an {H}ove analysis of
the enhanced self-diffusion of non-commensurate guest
particles in smectics},
journal = {The journal of chemical physics},
volume = {154},
number = {20},
issn = {1089-7690},
address = {Melville, NY},
publisher = {American Institute of Physics},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-02855},
pages = {204901 -},
year = {2021},
abstract = {We investigate the anomalous dynamics in smectic phases of
short host rods where, counter-intuitively, long guest
rod-shaped particles diffuse faster than the short host ones
due to their precise size mismatch. In addition to the
previously reported mean-square displacement, we analyze the
time evolution of the self-Van Hove functions G(r, t), as
this probability density function uncovers intrinsic
heterogeneous dynamics. Through this analysis, we show that
the dynamics of the host particles parallel to the director
becomes non-Gaussian and therefore heterogeneous after the
nematic-to-smectic-A phase transition, even though it
exhibits a nearly diffusive behavior according to its
mean-squared displacement. In contrast, the non-commensurate
guest particles display Gaussian dynamics of the parallel
motion, up to the transition to the smectic-B phase. Thus,
we show that the self-Van Hove function is a very sensitive
probe to account for the instantaneous and heterogeneous
dynamics of our system and should be more widely considered
as a quantitative and complementary approach of the
classical mean-squared displacement characterization in
diffusion processes.I. INTRODUCTION},
cin = {IBI-4},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBI-4-20200312},
pnm = {5243 - Information Processing in Distributed Systems
(POF4-524)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5243},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {34241175},
UT = {WOS:000653338400001},
doi = {10.1063/5.0049093},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/893816},
}