Abstract
The fluctuation dissipation theorem is studied close to the glass transition in colloidal suspensions under steady shear. Shear breaks detailed balance in the many-particle Smoluchowski equation and gives response functions in the stationary state which are smaller at long times than estimated from the equilibrium fluctuation dissipation theorem. During the final shear-driven decay, an asymptotically constant relation connects response and fluctuations, restoring the form of the fluctuation dissipation theorem with, however, a ratio different from the equilibrium one.
- Received 11 July 2008
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.135701
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