Non-reactive forces and pattern formation induced by a nonequilibrium medium
Statistical Mechanics
2017-11-21 v1 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We study the induced interaction between multiple probes locally interacting with driven colloids and trapped in a toroidal geometry. The effective binary forces between the probes break the action-reaction principle and their range decreases with the driving. We demonstrate how in the stationary nonlinear nonequilibrium regime these interactions induce stability of a crystal-like pattern, where the probes are equidistant, when the probe-colloid interaction is either completely attractive or completely repulsive.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1711.05168,
title = {Non-reactive forces and pattern formation induced by a nonequilibrium medium},
author = {Christian Maes and Karel Netocny},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.05168},
year = {2017}
}
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11 pages, 2 figures