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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 3: Granular Matter

DY 3.4: Vortrag

Montag, 7. März 2016, 10:30–10:45, H46

1/f noise on the brink of wet granular melting — •Kai Huang — Experimentalphysik V, Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany

The collective behavior of a two-dimensional wet granular cluster under horizontal swirling motions is investigated experimentally. Depending on the balance between the energy injection and dissipation, the cluster evolves into various nonequilibrium stationary states with strong internal structure fluctuations with time. Quantitative characterizations of the fluctuations with the bond orientational order parameter q₆ reveal power spectra of the form f^α with the exponent α closely related to the stationary states of the system. In particular, 1/f type of noise with α≈−1 emerges as melting starts from the free surface of the cluster, suggesting the possibility of using 1/f noise as an indicator for phase transitions in systems driven far from thermodynamic equilibrium.