Hyperuniform Active Chiral Fluids with Tunable Internal Structure

Autor: Zhang, Bo, Snezhko, Alexey
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 218002 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.218002
Popis: Large density fluctuations observed in active systems and hyperuniformity are two seemingly incompatible phenomena. However, the formation of hyperuniform states has been recently predicted in non-equilibrium fluids formed by chiral particles performing circular motion with the same handedness. Here we report evidence of hyperuniformity realized in a chiral active fluid comprised of pear-shaped Quincke rollers of arbitrary handedness. We show that hyperuniformity and large density fluctuations, triggered by dynamic clustering, coexist in this system at different length scales. The system loses its hyperuniformity as the curvature of particles' motion increases transforming them into localized spinners. Our results experimentally demonstrate a novel hyperuniform active fluid and provide new insights into an interplay between chirality, activity and hyperuniformity.
Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure; additional figures in SI, Accepted by PRL
Databáze: arXiv