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Evaluation of the velocity and stress time correlation functions of a liquid, using a simple but speculative model for liquid state dynamics, leads to a relation between self-diffusion and viscosity. The result resembles the Stokes–Einstein formula, and agrees reasonably well with experimental data.
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Robert Zwanzig (1983) studied this question.
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