Collective Directional Locking of Colloidal Monolayers on a Periodic Substrate
arXiv:2001.06897 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.058002
Abstract
We investigate the directional locking effects that arise when a monolayer of paramagnetic colloidal particles is driven across a triangular lattice of magnetic bubbles. We use an external rotating magnetic field to generate a two dimensional traveling wave ratchet forcing the transport of particles along a direction that intersects two crystallographic axes of the lattice. We find that, while single particles show no preferred direction, collective effects induce transversal current and directional locking at high density via a spontaneous symmetry breaking. The colloidal current may be polarized via an additional bias field that makes one transport direction energetically preferred.
arXiv commentaccepted in Phys. Rev. Lett
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