Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 61, Number 3, February 2003
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Page(s) | 415 - 421 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary physics and related areas of science and technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2003-00193-6 | |
Published online | 01 January 2003 |
Dynamical instability in driven colloids
1
S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block-JD, Sector-III Salt Lake, Calcutta, 700091, India
2
Institut für Theoretische Physik II, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf Universitätsstraße 1, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
Received:
17
May
2002
Accepted:
25
November
2002
Brownian-dynamics computer simulations show a dynamical crossover in a strongly interacting colloidal suspension consisting of oppositely driven particles, wherein a uniform state transforms, with increasing driving force, into a locally demixed state characterized by strongly anisotropic stripe-like domains which are homogeneous in the direction parallel to the drive but have finite spatial extent of a double-correlation length in the transverse direction. A phenomenological dynamic density-functional theory has been proposed which accounts for such a strongly anisotropic state as arising from an instability of a homogeneous state.
PACS: 82.70.-y – Disperse systems; complex fluids / 61.20.-p – Structure of liquids / 05.40.-a – Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion
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