Collective directional locking of colloidal monolayers on a periodic substrate
We investigate the directional locking effects that arise when a monolayer of paramagnetic colloidal particles is driven across a triangular lattice of magnetic bubbles. We use an external rotating magnetic field to generate a two-dimensional traveling wave ratchet forcing the transport of particles...
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| Tipo de documento: | Artigo |
| Estado: | Published version |
| Data de publicação: | 2020 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad de Barcelona |
| Repositório: | Dipòsit Digital de la UB |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/158946 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/158946 |
| Nível de acesso: | Acesso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Col·loides Matèria condensada tova Colloids Soft condensed matter |
| Resumo: | We investigate the directional locking effects that arise when a monolayer of paramagnetic colloidal particles is driven across a triangular lattice of magnetic bubbles. We use an external rotating magnetic field to generate a two-dimensional traveling wave ratchet forcing the transport of particles along a direction that intersects two crystallographic axes of the lattice. We find that, while single particles show no preferred direction, collective effects induce transversal current and directional locking at high density via a spontaneous symmetry breaking. The colloidal current may be polarized via an additional bias field that makes one transport direction energetically preferred. |
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