Brownian motion: a paradigm of soft matter and biological physics

This is a pedagogical introduction to Brownian motion on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Einstein's 1905 paper on the subject. After briefly reviewing Einstein's work in a contemporary context, we pursue several lines of further developments and applications to soft condensed matt...

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Published inAnnalen der Physik Vol. 14; no. 1-3; pp. 20 - 50
Main Authors Frey, E., Kroy, K.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin WILEY-VCH Verlag 17.02.2005
WILEY‐VCH Verlag
Subjects
biological physics
Brownian motion
fluctuations
stochastic processes
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ISSN0003-3804
1521-3889
DOI10.1002/andp.200410132

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Summary:This is a pedagogical introduction to Brownian motion on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Einstein's 1905 paper on the subject. After briefly reviewing Einstein's work in a contemporary context, we pursue several lines of further developments and applications to soft condensed matter and biology. Over the last century Brownian motion has been promoted from an odd curiosity of marginal scientific interest to a guiding theme pervading all of the modern life sciences.
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ArticleID:ANDP200410132
ISSN:0003-3804
1521-3889
DOI:10.1002/andp.200410132