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View SchemaControlled Dynamics of Interfaces in a Vibrated Granular Layer
| Authors | I. Aranson, D. Blair, W. Kwok, G. Karapetrov, U. Welp, G. W. Crabtree, V. M. Vinokur, L. Tsimring |
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| ArXiv ID | patt-sol/9810005 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/patt-sol/9810005 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.731 |
Abstract
We present experimental study of a topological excitation, {\it interface}, in a vertically vibrated layer of granular material. We show that these interfaces, separating regions of granular material oscillation with opposite phases, can be shifted and controlled by a very small amount of an additional subharmonic signal, mixed with the harmonic driving signal. The speed and the direction of interface motion depends sensitively on the phase and the amplitude of the subharmonic driving.
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