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Driven granular fluids

Glass transition and microrheology

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Dense granular media can be prepared in a stationary state by suitable driving. Such driving can be given by a random, momentum-conserving external force acting upon, say, a fluid comprised of inelastic hard spheres. While this out-of-equilibrium stationary state violates time reversal symmetry, it can still be investigated by means similar to ordinary fluids. For high enough density, the driven granular fluid undergoes a glass transition, and for this transition an extension to the mode-coupling theory can be derived. In addition to the quiescent stationary state, a kinetic theory as well as experiments in 2D for the active microrheology can be devised, where a selected intruder is pulled through the system as a probe for either constant velocity or force.

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  1. Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, 51170, Köln, Germany

    Matthias Sperl

  2. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität zu Köln, Zülpicher Strasse 77, 50937, Köln, Germany

    Matthias Sperl

  3. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, 37077, Göttingen, Germany

    Annette Zippelius

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Sperl, M., Zippelius, A. Driven granular fluids. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 226, 3079–3094 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2017-70082-8

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