Spontaneous spirals in vibrated granular chains

Details Spontaneous spirals in vibrated granular chains Spontaneous spirals in vibrated granular chains

2002-12-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0212107v1

MRS Symposium Proceedings 759, 129 (2003).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

6 pages, 11 figures

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We present experimental measurements on the spontaneous formation of compact spiral structures in vertically-vibrated granular chains. Under weak vibration, when the chain is quasi two-dimensional and self-avoiding, spiral structures emerge from generic initial configurations. We compare geometrical characteristics of the spiral with that of an ideal tight spiral. Globally, the spiral undergoes a slow rotation such that to keep itself wound, while internally, fast vibrational modes are excited along the backbone with transverse oscillations dominating over longitudinal ones. Spirals have an extremely small volume in phase space, and hence, their formation demonstrates how nonequilibrium dynamics can result in a nonuniform sampling of phase space.

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