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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik

CPP 6: Active Matter A (joint session DY/CPP)

CPP 6.1: Invited Talk

Monday, April 1, 2019, 09:30–10:00, H20

Collective behavior and self-organisation of active granular particles — •Thorsten Pöschel, Michael Engel, Christian Scholz, and Harol Torres — Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Biological organisms and artificial active particles self-organize into swarms and patterns. Open questions concern the design of emergent phenomena by choosing appropriate forms of activity and particle interactions. A particularly simple and versatile system are 3D-printed robots on a vibrating table that can perform self-propelled and self-spinning motion. Here we study a mixture of minimalistic clockwise and counter-clockwise rotating robots, called rotors. Our experiments show that rotors move collectively and exhibit super-diffusive interfacial motion and phase separate via spinodal decomposition. On long time scales, confinement favors symmetric demixing patterns. By mapping rotor motion on a Langevin equation with a constant driving torque and by comparison with computer simulations, we demonstrate that our macroscopic system is a form of active soft matter.

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C. Scholz, M. Engel, T. Pöschel, Nature Comm. 9, 931 (2018)

C. Scholz, S. D'Silva, T. Pöschel, New J. Phys. 18, 123001 (2016)

C. Scholz, T. Pöschel, Revista Cubana de Física 34, 69 (2017)