We study a two-dimensional model for interacting colloidal particles which displays spontaneous clustering. Within this model we investigate the competition between the pinning to a periodic corrugation potential and a sideways constant pulling force which would promote a sliding state. For a few sample particle densities and amplitudes of the periodic corrugation potential we investigate the depinning from the statically pinned to the dynamically sliding regime. This sliding state exhibits the competition between a dynamics where entire clusters are pulled from a minimum to the next and a dynamics where single colloids or smaller groups leave a cluster and move across the corrugation energy barrier to join the next cluster downstream in the force direction. Both kinds of sliding states can occur either coherently across the entire sample or asynchronously: the two regimes result in different average mobilities. Finite temperature tends to destroy separate sliding regimes, generating a smoother dependence of the mobility on the driving force.
Sliding states of a soft-colloid cluster crystal: Cluster versus single-particle hopping / M. Rossini, L. Consonni, A. Stenco, L. Reatto, N. Manini. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW. E. - ISSN 2470-0045. - 97:5(2018 May 22), pp. 052614.052614-1-052614.052614-13. [10.1103/PhysRevE.97.052614]
Sliding states of a soft-colloid cluster crystal: Cluster versus single-particle hopping
L. ReattoPenultimo
;N. Manini
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2018
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We study a two-dimensional model for interacting colloidal particles which displays spontaneous clustering. Within this model we investigate the competition between the pinning to a periodic corrugation potential and a sideways constant pulling force which would promote a sliding state. For a few sample particle densities and amplitudes of the periodic corrugation potential we investigate the depinning from the statically pinned to the dynamically sliding regime. This sliding state exhibits the competition between a dynamics where entire clusters are pulled from a minimum to the next and a dynamics where single colloids or smaller groups leave a cluster and move across the corrugation energy barrier to join the next cluster downstream in the force direction. Both kinds of sliding states can occur either coherently across the entire sample or asynchronously: the two regimes result in different average mobilities. Finite temperature tends to destroy separate sliding regimes, generating a smoother dependence of the mobility on the driving force.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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