addendum: A universal scaling law for atomic diffusion in condensed matter

Nature, 381, 137 - 139 (1996) .

The author inadvertently omitted to mention an earlier result¹ relating diffusion D, excess entropy s, density ρ and temperature T in liquids as D ρ^1/3(m/k_BT)^1/2 = Ae^Bs. It was interpreted² as a convenient approximation of an essentially algebraic relation with B changing from 0.65 for hard spheres to 0.8 for soft spheres, and A varying within 30%.

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