Experimental validation of nonextensive scaling law in confined granular media

Abstract

In this letter, we address the relationship between the statistical fluctuations of grain displacements for a full quasistatic plane shear experiment, and the corresponding anomalous diffusion exponent, $\alpha$. We experimentally validate a particular case of the so-called Tsallis-Bukman scaling law, $\alpha =2/(3-q)$, where $q$ is obtained by fitting the probability density function (PDF) of the measured fluctuations with a $q$-Gaussian distribution, and the diffusion exponent is measured independently during the experiment. Applying an original technique, we are able to evince a transition from an anomalous diffusion regime to a Brownian behavior as a function of the length of the strain-window used to calculate the displacements of grains in experiments. The outstanding conformity of fitting curves to a massive amount of experimental data shows a clear broadening of the fluctuation PDFs as the length of the strain-window decreases, and an increment in the value of the diffusion exponent - anomalous diffusion. Regardless of the size of the strain-window considered in the measurements, we show that the Tsallis-Bukman scaling law remains valid, which is the first experimental verification of this relationship for a classical system at different diffusion regimes. We also note that the spatial correlations show marked similarities to the turbulence in fluids, a promising indication that this type of analysis can be used to explore the origins of the macroscopic friction in confined granular materials.

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