Emergence of long-range non-equilibrium correlations in free liquid diffusion
arXiv:2507.23507 · doi:10.1063/5.0292952
Abstract
It is experimentally well-established that non-equilibrium long-range correlations of concentration fluctuations appear in free diffusion of a solute in a solvent, but it remains unknown how such correlations are established dynamically. We address this problem in a model of Donev, Fai \& Vanden-Eijnden (DFV), obtained from the high-Schmidt limit of the Landau-Lifschitz fluctuating hydrodynamic equations for a binary mixture. We consider an initial planar interface of the mean concentration field in an infinite space domain, idealizing prior experiments. Using methods borrowed from turbulence theory, we show both analytically and numerically that a quasi-steady regime with self-similar time decay of concentration correlations appears at long time. In addition to the expected ``giant concentration fluctuations'' with correlations for with diffusivity a new regime with spatial decay appears for The quasi-steady regime arises from an initial stage of transient growth confirming the prediction of DFV for and discovering an analogous result for Our results give new insight into the emergence of non-equilibrium long-range correlations and provide novel predictions that may be investigated experimentally.
12 pages, 8 figures
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