Issue |
EPL
Volume 78, Number 2, April 2007
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Article Number | 28003 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/78/28003 | |
Published online | 29 March 2007 |
Spatially heterogenous dynamics in dense, driven granular flows
Martin Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University - Mailstop 057, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA
Received:
18
January
2007
Accepted:
5
March
2007
Interest in the dynamical arrest leading to a fluid solid transition in thermal and athermal systems has led to questions about the nature of these transitions. These jamming transitions may be dependent on the influence of extended structures on the dynamics of the system. Here we show results from a simple driven, dissipative, non-equilibrium system which exhibits dynamical heterogeneities similar to those observed in a supercooled liquid which is a system in thermal equilibrium. Observations of the time
required for a particular particle to move a distance r reveal the existence of large-scale correlated dynamical regions with characteristic time scales chosen from a broad distribution. The mean squared displacement of ensembles of particles with varying characteristic
reveals an intriguing spatially heterogenous mobility. This suggests that a unified framework for jamming will have to be based on the connection between the nature of these heterogeneities and the effective dynamics.
PACS: 81.05.Rm – Porous materials; granular materials / 45.70.-n – Granular systems / 83.10.Pp – Particle dynamics
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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