Seminar über Theorie der kondensierten Materie / TRR146 Seminar

Sept. 27, 2026 at 2:30 p.m. in Minkowski-Raum, 05-119, Staudingerweg 7 and via Zoom

F. Schmid
friederike.schmid@uni-mainz.de

P. Virnau
virnau@uni-mainz.de

L. Stelzl
lstelzl@uni-mainz.de

Snap, crackle and pop: This is why the potential of mean force ruins the fluctuation-dissipation theorem
Tanja Schilling (Prof. Dr.)


When modelling soft matter systems, the Langevin equation is often used in a form that contains a potential of mean force or a thermodynamic driving force. (Think e.g. of Cahn-Hilliard theory, phase-field modelling or dissipative particle dynamics.) We will show that the introduction of a thermodynamic driving force is, in general, accompanied by a violation of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. Interestingly, this violation stems from contributions of the fourth, fifth, and higher-order derivatives of the particles' positions.