Kinetics of orbitally shaken particles constrained to two dimensions

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Kinetics of orbitally shaken particles constrained to two dimensions

Journal Article (2018)

Author(s)

Dhananjay Ipparthi (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Tijmen A.G. Hageman (University of Twente, Saarland University)

Nicolas Cambier (EA 4297 TIMR UTC/ESCOM)

Metin Sitti (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)

Marco Dorigo (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

Leon Abelmann (Saarland University, University of Twente)

Max Mastrangeli (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)

DOI related publication

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.98.042137 Final published version

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Publication Year

2018

Language

English

Issue number

4

Volume number

98

Article number

042137

Pages (from-to)

1-8

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Abstract

We present an experimental study of the kinetics of orbitally-shaken, sliding macroscopic particles confined to a two-dimensional space bounded by walls. Discounting the forcing action of the external periodic actuation, the particles undergo a qualitative transition from a ballistic to a diffusive motion regime with time. Despite the deterministic input of kinetic energy provided by the shaker, the particles show translational velocities and diffusivity consistent with a confined random walk model. Such experimental system may therefore represent a suitable macroscopic analog to investigate aspects of molecular dynamics and self-assembly.