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Brownian Motion of a Heavy Impurity in Harmonic Lattices

P. S. Damle*

  • Institute of Theoretical Physics, Sven Hultins gata, Göteborg, Sweden

  • *Permanent address: Physics Department, University of Poona, Poona 7, India.

Phys. Rev. 167, 229 – Published 5 March, 1968

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.167.229

Abstract

Starting from the well-known expression for the frequency spectrum of a mass impurity in a harmonic lattice, the velocity autocorrelation function for a heavy impurity has been calculated without referring to any particular model. Using then general arguments, the postulates of Langevin's equation have been briefly discussed.

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