The odd free surface flows of a colloidal chiral fluid

• Published in: Nature physics Vol. 15; no. 11; pp. 1188 - 1194
• Main Authors: Soni, Vishal, Bililign, Ephraim S., Magkiriadou, Sofia, Sacanna, Stefano, Bartolo, Denis, Shelley, Michael J., Irvine, William T. M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.11.2019; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Publishing Group [2005-....]
• Subjects: 639/301/923/614; 639/766/189; Atomic; Classical and Continuum Physics; Complex Systems; Computational fluid dynamics; Condensed Matter Physics; Fluid flow; Fluid mechanics; Fluids; Free surfaces; Hydrodynamics; Magnets; Mathematical and Computational Physics; Molecular; Optical and Plasma Physics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Surface dynamics; Surface waves; Theoretical

In simple fluids, such as water, invariance under parity and time-reversal symmetry imposes that the rotation of constituent ‘atoms’ is determined by the flow and that viscous stresses damp motion. Activation of the rotational degrees of freedom of a fluid by spinning its atomic building blocks brea...