Hyperuniform structures formed by shearing colloidal suspensions

Abstract

In periodically sheared suspensions there is a dynamical phase transition characterized by a critical strain amplitude ${\gamma }_c$ between an absorbing state where particle trajectories are reversible and an active state where trajectories are chaotic and diffusive. Repulsive non-hydrodynamic interactions between "colliding" particles' surfaces have been proposed as a source of this broken time reversal symmetry. A simple toy model called Random Organization qualitatively reproduces the dynamical features of this transition. Random Organization and other absorbing state models exhibit hyperuniformity, a strong suppression of density fluctuations on long length-scales quantified by a structure factor $S(q\to 0)\sim q^{\alpha }$ with $\alpha >0$, at criticality. Here we show experimentally that the particles in periodically sheared suspensions organize into structures with anisotropic short-range order but isotropic, long-range hyperuniform order when oscillatory shear amplitudes approach ${\gamma }_c$.

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