Measurement of the instantaneous velocity of a brownian particle

Science

Volumn 328, Issue 5986, 2010, Pages 1673-1675

  Li, Tongcang ^a   Kheifets, Simon ^a   Medellin, David ^a   Raizen, Mark G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

BROWNIAN MOTION; FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; VELOCITY PROFILE;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; VELOCITY;

EID: 77954057409     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1189403     Document Type: Article

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26. M.G.R. acknowledges support from the Sid W. Richardson Foundation and the R. A. Welch Foundation grant number F-1258. D.M. acknowledges support from El Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT) for his graduate fellowship (206429). The authors would also like to thank E.-L. Florin and Z. Yin for helpful discussions and I. Popov for his help with the experiment.