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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik
DY 12: Posters DY - Fluid Physics, Active Matter, Complex Fluids, Soft Matter and Glasses (joint session DY/BP)
DY 12.6: Poster
Monday, March 22, 2021, 14:00–16:30, DYp
Organizing bacterial vortex lattices by periodic obstacle arrays — •Henning Reinken1, Sebastian Heidenreich2, Markus Bär2, and Sabine H. L. Klapp1 — 1Technische Universität Berlin, Germany — 2Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Berlin, Germany
Recent experimental studies have shown that the turbulent vortex structures emerging in bacterial active fluids can be organized into regular vortex lattices by weak geometrical constraints such as small pillars [1].
Using a continuum-theoretical approach [2,3], we show how these artificial obstacles reorganize self-induced topological defects which guides the flow profile of the active fluid and enables the
stabilization of vortex patterns with tunable properties. Beyond the stabilization of square and
hexagonal lattices, we also provide a striking example of a chiral, antiferromagnetic lattice
induced by arranging the obstacles in a Kagome-like array [3]. In this setup, the interplay of lattice
topology, activity and length-scale selection generates a net rotational flow.
Further, we explore the connections between the stabilized non-equilibrium vortex patterns and equilibrium
phase transitions in classical spin lattice models, e.g., the Ising model.
[1] D. Nishiguchi, I. S. Aranson, A. Snezhko, and A. Sokolov,
[1] Nat. Commun. 9, 4486 (2018)
[2] H. Reinken, S. H. L. Klapp, M. Bär, and S. Heidenreich,
[3] Phys. Rev. E 97, 022613 (2018)
[3] H. Reinken, D. Nishiguchi, S. Heidenreich, A. Sokolov, M. Bär,
[2] S. H. L. Klapp, and I. S. Aranson, Commun. Phys. 3, 76 (2020)