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Rolling spinners on the water surface
Jean-Baptiste Gorce, Konstantin Y. Bliokh, Hua Xia +3
Angular momentum of spinning bodies leads to their remarkable interactions with fields, waves, fluids, and solids. Orbiting celestial bodies, balls in sports, liquid droplets above…
Turbulence-assisted formation of bacterial cellulose
Sung-Ha Hong, Jia Yang, Mahdi Davoodianidalik +3
Bacterial cellulose is an important class of biomaterials which can be grown in well-controlled laboratory and industrial conditions. The cellulose structure is affected by several…
Field-theory spin and momentum in water waves
K. Y. Bliokh, H. Punzmann, H. Xia +2
Spin is a fundamental yet nontrivial intrinsic angular-momentum property of quantum particles or fields, which appears within relativistic field theory. The spin density in wave fi…
Wave-controlled bacterial attachment and formation of biofilms
Sung-Ha Hong, Jean-Baptiste Gorce, Horst Punzmann +3
The formation of bacterial biofilms on solid surfaces within a fluid starts when bacteria attach to the substrate. Understanding environmental factors affecting the attachment and…
Tractor beam on the water surface
Horst Punzmann, Nicolas Francois, Hua Xia +2
Can one send a wave to bring an object from a distance? The general idea is inspired by the recent success in moving micro particles using light and the development of a tractor be…
Three-dimensional fluid motion in Faraday waves: creation of vorticity and generation of two-dimensional turbulence
N. Francois, H. Xia, H. Punzmann +2
We study the generation of 2D turbulence in Faraday waves by investigating the creation of spatially periodic vortices in this system. Measurements which couple a diffusing light i…