Propagating front in an excited granular layer

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1998-12-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9812089v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

16 pages, 9 figures, revised version, to appear in Phys. Rev. E, May 1999

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.59.5855

A partial monolayer of ~ 20000 uniform spherical steel beads, vibrated vertically on a flat plate, shows remarkable ordering transitions and cooperative behavior just below 1g maximum acceleration. We study the stability of a quiescent disordered or ``amorphous'' state formed when the acceleration is switched off in the excited ``gaseous'' state. The transition from the amorphous state back to the gaseous state upon increasing the plate's acceleration is generally subcritical: An external perturbation applied to one bead initiates a propagating front that produces a rapid transition. We measure the front velocity as a function of the applied acceleration. This phenomenon is explained by a model based on a single vibrated particle with multiple attractors that is perturbed by collisions. A simulation shows that a sufficiently high rate of interparticle collisions can prevent trapping in the attractor corresponding to the nonmoving ground state.

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