Year: 2006
Type: preprint
Abstract: Three colloidal spheres driven around a ring-like optical trap known as an optical vortex have been predicted to undergo periodic collective motion due to their hydrodynamic coupling. In fact, the quenched disorder in the optically-implemented potential energy landscape drives a transition to instability evolving into microscopic weak chaos with fractional dynamics. As a result, the relation between the space-time selfsimilarity of the system's collective transport properties and its microscopic weak chaos dynamics is revealed.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Language: English
Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2133037618