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Non-monotonic conductivity in a conductor-insulator fluid mixture

R B Pandey

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Charge transport in a stirred percolating system of a conductor-insulator mixture (a model for the microemulsion) is studied by computer simulation in two dimensions. The flow of charge from source to sink via nearest-neighbour charge exchange on the transient network of the conducting particles is considered. For the particle jump accompanied by a local charge transfer, the conductivity depends non-monotonically on the concentration p of the conducting particles and exhibits a maximum near the percolation threshold. The maximum vanishes and the conductivity rises with concentration p with a non-universal power on increasing the frequency of charge exchange.


PACS

47.10.-g General theory in fluid dynamics

MSC

82C21 Dynamic continuum models (systems of particles, etc.)

82C20 Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs

82C70 Transport processes

Subjects

Fluid dynamics

Mathematical physics

Dates

Issue 18 (21 December 1987)



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