Colloidal Dynamics on Disordered Substrates

Details Colloidal Dynamics on Disordered Substrates Colloidal Dynamics on Disordered Substrates

2001-11-15

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0111298v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.078301

Using Langevin simulations we examine driven colloids interacting with quenched disorder. For weak substrates the colloids form an ordered state and depin elastically. For increasing substrate strength we find a sharp crossover to inhomogeneous depinning and a substantial increase in the depinning force, analogous to the peak effect in superconductors. The velocity versus driving force curve shows criticality at depinning, with a change in scaling exponent occuring at the order to disorder crossover. Upon application of a sudden pulse of driving force, pronounced transients appear in the disordered regime which are due to the formation of long-lived colloidal flow channels.

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