Granular materials - Taking the temperature

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Behringer, B [1 ]
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[1] Duke Univ, Dept Phys, Ctr Nonlinear & Complex Syst, Durham, NC 27708 USA
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10.1038/415594a
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The 'temperature' of a granular material depends on its entropy, but is hard to measure in the laboratory. So a theory that ties temperature to grain mobility and diffusion is welcome.
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