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In 2005, Couder, Protiere, Fort and Badouad showed that oil droplets bouncing on a vibrating tray of oil can display nonlocal interactions reminiscent of the particle-wave associations in quantum mechanics; in particular they can move,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-20 Robert Brady , Ross Anderson

We study the long time statistics of a walker in a hydrodynamic pilot-wave system, which is a stochastic Langevin dynamics with an external potential and memory kernel. While prior experiments and numerical simulations have indicated that…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Hung D. Nguyen , Anand U. Oza

We develop a data-driven characterization of the pilot-wave hydrodynamic system in which a bouncing droplet self-propels along the surface of a vibrating bath. We consider drop motion in a confined one-dimensional geometry, and apply the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-14 J. Nathan Kutz , Andre Nachbin , Peter J. Baddoo , John W. M. Bush

We study experimentally the dynamics of a water droplet on a tilted and vertically oscillating rigid fibre. As we vary the frequency and amplitude of the oscillations the droplet transitions between different modes: harmonic pumping,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-02 Stéphane Poulain , Andreas Carlson

Damped-driven systems are ubiquitous in science, however the damping and driving mechanisms are often quite convoluted. This manuscript presents an experimental and theoretical investigation of a fluidic droplet on a vertically vibrating…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-12 Aminur Rahman

We consider the dynamics of a droplet on a vibrating fluid bath. This hydrodynamic quantum analog system is shown to elicit the canonical behavior of damped-driven systems, including a period doubling route to chaos. By approximating the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Aminur Rahman , J. Nathan Kutz

Over the past decade the study of fluidic droplets bouncing and skipping (or ``walking'') on a vibrating fluid bath has gone from an interesting experiment to a vibrant research field. The field exhibits challenging fluids problems,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-18 Aminur Rahman , Denis Blackmore

We aim to describe a droplet bouncing on a vibrating bath using a simple and highly versatile model inspired from quantum mechanics. Close to the Faraday instability, a long-lived surface wave is created at each bounce, which serves as a…

A classical wave-particle entity (WPE) can be realized experimentally as a droplet walking on the free surface of a vertically vibrating liquid bath, with the droplet's horizontal walking motion guided by its self-generated wave field.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Joshua Perks , Rahil Valani

On the surface of a vibrating liquid bath, instead of coalescing, a drop will continually bounce on a thin film of air between the drop and the free surface, giving rise to rich chaotic dynamics and quantum analog behavior. However,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-18 Lebo Molefe , Tomas Fullana , François Gallaire , John M. Kolinski

We analyze quantum droplets formed in a two-dimensional symmetric mixture of Bose-Einstein condensed atoms. For sufficiently large atom numbers, these droplets exhibit a flat-top density profile with sharp boundaries governed by surface…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-30 Angel Paredes , Jose Guerra-Carmenate , Humberto Michinel

Deformed droplets are ubiquitous in various industrial applications, such as inkjet printing, lab-on-a-chip devices, and spray cooling, and can fundamentally affect the involved applications both favorably and unfavorably. Here, we employ…

The buoyancy-driven dynamics of a pair of gas bubbles released in line is investigated numerically, focusing on highly inertial conditions under which isolated bubbles follow non-straight paths. In an early stage, the second bubble always…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-06-22 Jie Zhang , Ming-Jiu Ni , Jacques Magnaudet

Droplet deformations caused by substrate vibrations are ubiquitous in nature and highly relevant for applications such as microreactors and single-cell sorting. The vibrations can induce droplet oscillations, a fundamental process that…

In recent decades novel solid substrates have been designed which change their wettability in response to light or an electrostatic field. Here, we investigate a droplet on substrates with oscillating uniform wettability by varying minimium…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-28 Josua Grawitter , Holger Stark

Inspired by bouncing drop experiments that revealed how macroscopic systems can exhibit wave-particle properties previously thought to be exclusive to quantum systems, we introduce here a new wave-particle system based on internal gravity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-16 Simon Gsell , Patrice Le Gal

The Kapitza-Dirac effect is the diffraction of quantum particles by a standing wave of light. We here report an analogous phenomenon in pilot-wave hydrodynamics, wherein droplets walking across the surface of a vibrating liquid bath are…

The structure and dynamics of one-dimensional binary Bose gases forming quantum droplets is studied by solving the corresponding amended Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Two physically different regimes are identified, corresponding to small…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-01 G. E. Astrakharchik , B. A. Malomed

The interaction of 'walking droplets' and capillary waves in a weakly subcritical Faraday wave experiment has been studied as a hydrodynamic analog to Bohmian quantum mechanics (see "Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs", J. Bush and A. Oza, Rep.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-02 Emily Dunn , Bavand Keshavarz , Earl Dowell

Recently, the properties of bouncing oil droplets, also known as "walkers", have attracted much attention because they are thought to offer a gateway to a better understanding of quantum behaviour. They constitute indeed a macroscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Mohamed Hatifi , Ralph Willox , Samuel Colin , Thomas Durt