First order alignment transition in an interfaced active nematic
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| author | Bantysh, Olga Nambisan, Jyothishraj Martínez-Prat, Berta Fernández-Nieves, Alberto Sagués, Francesc Ignés-Mullol, Jordi |
| author_facet | Bantysh, Olga Nambisan, Jyothishraj Martínez-Prat, Berta Fernández-Nieves, Alberto Sagués, Francesc Ignés-Mullol, Jordi |
| contents | We investigate experimentally the dynamic phase transition of a two-dimensional active nematic layer interfaced with a passive liquid crystal. Under a temperature ramp that leads to the transition of the passive liquid into a highly anisotropic lamellar smectic-A phase, and in the presence of a magnetic field, the coupled active nematic reorganizes its flow and orientational patterns from the turbulent into a quasi-laminar regime aligned perpendicularly to the field. Remarkably, while the phase transition of the passive fluid is known to be continuous, our observations reveal intermittent dynamics of the order parameter and the coexistence of aligned and turbulent regions in the active nematic, a signature of discontinuous, or first order, phase transitions. |
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arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2303_05589 |
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| publishDate | 2023 |
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| spellingShingle | First order alignment transition in an interfaced active nematic Bantysh, Olga Nambisan, Jyothishraj Martínez-Prat, Berta Fernández-Nieves, Alberto Sagués, Francesc Ignés-Mullol, Jordi Soft Condensed Matter We investigate experimentally the dynamic phase transition of a two-dimensional active nematic layer interfaced with a passive liquid crystal. Under a temperature ramp that leads to the transition of the passive liquid into a highly anisotropic lamellar smectic-A phase, and in the presence of a magnetic field, the coupled active nematic reorganizes its flow and orientational patterns from the turbulent into a quasi-laminar regime aligned perpendicularly to the field. Remarkably, while the phase transition of the passive fluid is known to be continuous, our observations reveal intermittent dynamics of the order parameter and the coexistence of aligned and turbulent regions in the active nematic, a signature of discontinuous, or first order, phase transitions. |
| title | First order alignment transition in an interfaced active nematic |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05589 |