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Anomalous Relaxation in Colloidal Systems

Avinash Kumar
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      The thesis presents a systematic study of the Mpemba effect in a colloidal system with a micron-sized particle diffusing in a water bath. While the Mpemba effect, where a system’s thermal relaxation time is a non-monotonic function of the initial temperature, has been observed in water since Aristotle’s era, the underlying mechanism of the effect is still unknown. Recent studies indicate that the effect is not limited to water and has been studied both experimentally and numerically in a wide variety of systems. By carefully designing a double-well potential using feedback-based optical tweezers, the author demonstrates that an initially hot system can sometimes cool faster than an initially warm system. The author also presents the first observation in any system of another counterintuitive effect—the inverse Mpemba effect—where the colder of the two samples reaches the thermal equilibrium at a hot temperature first. The results for both the observations agree with theoretical predictions based on the Fokker-Planck equation. The experiments reveal that, for carefully chosen conditions, a strong version of both of the effects are observed where a system can relax to the bath temperature exponentially faster than under typical conditions.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Avinash Kumar EAN: 9783031132827 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer International Publishing AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2023-11-06 CITY: GENRE: SCIENCE / Chemistry / General, SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light, SCIENCE / Mechanics / Thermodynamics, SCIENCE / Mechanics / Fluids, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Materials Science / General WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Condensed matter physics (liquid state and solid state physics), Thermodynamics and heat, Optical physics, Colloid chemistry, Materials science

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      Dr. Avinash Kumar was born in Munger, India and received his integrated BS-MS degree in Physics in 2015 from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India. He received his PhD degree in Physics, under the supervision of Prof. John Bechhoefer, from Simon Fraser University, Canada. Currently, Dr. Kumar is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Cell Biology at the Yale School of Medicine, USA.
      The thesis presents a systematic study of the Mpemba effect in a colloidal system with a micron-sized particle diffusing in a water bath. While the Mpemba effect, where a system’s thermal relaxation time is a non-monotonic function of the initial temperature, has been observed in water since Aristotle’s era, the underlying mechanism of the effect is still unknown. Recent studies indicate that the effect is not limited to water and has been studied both experimentally and numerically in a wide variety of systems. By carefully designing a double-well potential using feedback-based optical tweezers, the author demonstrates that an initially hot system can sometimes cool faster than an initially warm system. The author also presents the first observation in any system of another counterintuitive effect—the inverse Mpemba effect—where the colder of the two samples reaches the thermal equilibrium at a hot temperature first. The results for both the observations agree with theoretical predictions based on the Fokker-Planck equation. The experiments reveal that, for carefully chosen conditions, a strong version of both of the effects are observed where a system can relax to the bath temperature exponentially faster than under typical conditions.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Avinash Kumar EAN: 9783031132827 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer International Publishing AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2023-11-06 CITY: GENRE: SCIENCE / Chemistry / General, SCIENCE / Physics / Optics & Light, SCIENCE / Mechanics / Thermodynamics, SCIENCE / Mechanics / Fluids, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Materials Science / General WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      Condensed matter physics (liquid state and solid state physics), Thermodynamics and heat, Optical physics, Colloid chemistry, Materials science

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      Dr. Avinash Kumar was born in Munger, India and received his integrated BS-MS degree in Physics in 2015 from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India. He received his PhD degree in Physics, under the supervision of Prof. John Bechhoefer, from Simon Fraser University, Canada. Currently, Dr. Kumar is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Cell Biology at the Yale School of Medicine, USA.

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