SKM 2023 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 16: Complex Fluids and Soft Matter (joint session DY/CPP)

DY 16.4: Vortrag

Dienstag, 28. März 2023, 10:45–11:00, MOL 213

Transient microrheology unveils the presence of two relaxation processes in viscoelastic fluids — •Félix Ginot¹, Juliana Caspers², Luis Frieder Reinalter¹, Karthika Krishna Kumar¹, Matthias Krüger², and Clemens Bechinger¹ — ¹Fachbereich Physiks Universität Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz, Germany — ²Institute for Theoretical Physics, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, 37073 Göttingen, Germany

We experimentally investigate the transient dynamics of a colloidal probe particle in a viscoelastic fluid after the driving force acting on the probe is suddenly removed. In this situation, the probe exhibits a strong backward recoil, with two distinct timescales. While the first timescale naturally originates from the viscoelastic properties of the fluid, the second timescale arises from the coupling between the probe and the bath. These experimental observations are in excellent agreement with a microscopic model which considers the probe particle to be coupled to two bath particles via harmonic springs. Interestingly, this model exhibits two sets of eigenmodes corresponding to reciprocal and non-reciprocal force conditions, and which can be experimentally confirmed in our experiments. We expect our findings to be relevant under conditions where particles are exposed to non-steady shear forces as this is encountered e.g. in microfluidic sorting devices or the intermittent motion of motile bacteria within their natural viscoelastic surroundings.