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  • Physics
  • Soft Matter Physics
  • Non-equilibrium Systems

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  • Driven suspensions are models for out-of-equilibrium organization.
  • Colloidal particles driven rotationally exhibit hydrodynamic interactions, ideal for pattern formation studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate the impact of strong confinement on dynamics and emergent structure in driven colloidal suspensions.
  • Explore how confinement alters particle-scale organization and pattern formation.

Main Methods:

  • Combined experimental approaches with large-scale simulations.
  • Analyzed particle dynamics and emergent structures under varying confinement conditions.

Main Results:

  • Observed emergence of large-scale density fluctuations, significantly larger than particle size.
  • Demonstrated that these fluctuations are sensitive to the degree of confinement.
  • Identified recirculating flow generated by rotating particles as the cause of density fluctuations.

Conclusions:

  • Strong confinement can induce qualitative changes in mesoscale structure and ordering, even with distant boundaries.
  • Emergent density fluctuations are a key consequence of confinement in these driven systems.
  • Simulations quantitatively validated experimental observations of pattern formation.