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Segregation of oppositely driven colloidal particles in hard-walled channels: A finite-size study
Birte Heinze1, Ullrich Siems1, Peter Nielaba1
1Physics Department, University of Konstanz, 78467 Konstanz, Germany.
Abstract:
We investigate segregation phenomena of particles driven in opposite directions with Brownian dynamics simulations. The particles interact via a repulsive potential and are confined in three-dimensional hard-walled pipes with quadratic cross sections. In a systematic finite-size study, the pipe length is varied. Ordering on finite length scales can be observed, but global segregation seems to vanish for infinite channel length, as it was recently found for lane formation in two dimensions. As an additional effect of the finite hard-walled boundary conditions, interface vibrations and longitudinal demixing are found.
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