Velocity autocorrelation function

ID: velocity-autocorrelation-function

The unnormalized autocorrelation function of a stationary velocity. For zero mean, is the velocity variance. It is different from the normalized autocorrelation function often used in time series.
If , integrating the two-time covariance over the square gives
This identity connects a mean squared displacement to the Green-Kubo formula for diffusion.

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