Kromer J, Schmiedeberg M, Roth J, Stark H (2013)
Publication Status: Published
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2013
Publisher: SPRINGER
Book Volume: 36
Journal Issue: 3
DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2013-13025-0
Phasons are special hydrodynamic modes that occur in quasicrystals. The trajectories of particles due to a phasonic drift were recently studied by Kromer et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 218301 (2012)) for the case where the particles stay in the minima of a quasicrystalline potential. Here, we study the mean motion of colloidal particles in quasicrystalline laser fields when a phasonic drift or displacement is applied and also consider the cases where the colloids cannot follow the potential minima. While the mean square displacement is similar to the one of particles in a random potential with randomly changing potential wells, there also is a net drift of the colloids that reverses its direction when the phasonic drift velocity is increased. Furthermore, we explore the dynamics of the structural changes in a laser-induced quasicrystal during the rearrangement process that is caused by a steady phasonic drift or an instantaneous phasonic displacement.
APA:
Kromer, J., Schmiedeberg, M., Roth, J., & Stark, H. (2013). Phason-induced dynamics of colloidal particles on quasicrystalline substrates. European Physical Journal E, 36(3). https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2013-13025-0
MLA:
Kromer, Justus, et al. "Phason-induced dynamics of colloidal particles on quasicrystalline substrates." European Physical Journal E 36.3 (2013).
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