A mechanism of macroscopic rigid-body behavior through evanescent mode

Ken Sekimoto (), Yanis Mehdi Benane, Karim Elayoubi Alloubia, Romain Arteil and Antoine Fruleux
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Ken Sekimoto: Université de Paris
Yanis Mehdi Benane: Université de Paris
Karim Elayoubi Alloubia: Université de Paris
Romain Arteil: Université de Paris
Antoine Fruleux: Université de Lyon

The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 2021, vol. 94, issue 5, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract It has been numerically found that the setup of Newton’s cradle can exhibit a rigid-body like behavior, that is, the target cluster starts to move collectively without emitting the outermost particle if the purely repulsive interaction between the neighbouring particles is very “soft” (Phys. Rev. Lett. 104:124302, 2010). We show theoretically that such an interaction leads to an evanescent mode within the cluster, which delivers the momentum within the cluster without any propagating oscillation. Graphicabstract

Date: 2021
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