Active Matter Commensuration and Frustration Effects on Periodic Substrates

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author Reichhardt, C.
Reichhardt, C. J. O.
author_facet Reichhardt, C.
Reichhardt, C. J. O.
contents We show that self-driven particles coupled to a periodic obstacle array exhibit novel active matter commensuration effects that are absent in the Brownian limit. As the obstacle size is varied for sufficiently large activity, a series of commensuration effects appear in which the motility induced phase separation produces commensurate crystalline states, while for other obstacle sizes we find frustrated or amorphous states. The commensuration effects are associated with peaks in the amount of six-fold ordering and the maximum cluster size. When a drift force is added to the system, the mobility contains peaks and dips similar to those found in transport studies for commensuration effects in superconducting vortices and colloidal particles.
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spellingShingle Active Matter Commensuration and Frustration Effects on Periodic Substrates
Reichhardt, C.
Reichhardt, C. J. O.
Soft Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
We show that self-driven particles coupled to a periodic obstacle array exhibit novel active matter commensuration effects that are absent in the Brownian limit. As the obstacle size is varied for sufficiently large activity, a series of commensuration effects appear in which the motility induced phase separation produces commensurate crystalline states, while for other obstacle sizes we find frustrated or amorphous states. The commensuration effects are associated with peaks in the amount of six-fold ordering and the maximum cluster size. When a drift force is added to the system, the mobility contains peaks and dips similar to those found in transport studies for commensuration effects in superconducting vortices and colloidal particles.
title Active Matter Commensuration and Frustration Effects on Periodic Substrates
topic Soft Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02438