Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2010-12-02
Journal of Statistical Mechanics-Theory and Experiment, P03027 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
10.1088/1742-5468/2011/03/P03027
We report on quasi-two-dimensional granular systems in which either one or two large balls is fluidized by an upflow of air in the presence of a background of several hundred smaller beads. A single large ball is observed to propel ballistically in nearly circular orbits, in direct contrast to the Brownian behavior of a large ball fluidized in the absence of this background. Further, the large ball motion satisfies a Langevin equation with an additional speed-dependent force acting in the direction of motion. This results in a non-zero average speed of the large ball that is an order of magnitude faster than the root mean square speed of the background balls. Two large balls fluidized in the absence of the small-bead background experience a repulsive force depending only on the separation of the two balls. With the background beads present, by contrast, the ball-ball interaction becomes velocity-dependent and attractive. The attraction is long-ranged and inconsistent with a depletion model; instead, it is mediated by local fluctuations in the density of the background beads which depends on the large balls' motion.
Beverland M. E.
Daniels L. J.
Durian Douglas J.
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