Stochastic thermodynamics of a confined colloidal suspension under shear flow
arXiv:1809.01978 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.98.062619
Abstract
Based on Brownian dynamics simulations, we investigate the thermodynamic signatures of non-equilibrium steady states in a confined colloidal suspensions under shear flow. Specifically, we consider a thin film consisting of charged particles in narrow slit-pore confinement, forming two layers with quadratic in-plane structure in equilibrium. This many-body system displays three distinct steady states, characterized by unique dynamical and rheological response to the applied shear flow. Calculating the work and heat, we find that both quantities indicate the different states by their mean and by their distributions. A particularly interesting situation occurs at large shear rates, where the particles perform a collective zig-zag motion. Here, we find a bistability regarding the degree of phase synchronization of the particle motion. It turns out that this bistability is key to understanding the resulting ensemble-averaged work distributions. For all states, we compare the work and heat distributions to those of effective single-particle systems. By this, we aim at identifying the many-body character of the stochastic thermodynamic quantities.
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