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November 20, 1995Physical Review Letters409 citationsOpen Access

Hexagons, Kinks, and Disorder in Oscillated Granular Layers

FMFrancisco MeloUniversidad de Santiago de ChilePUPaul B. UmbanhowarRutgers, The State University of New JerseyHSHarry L. SwinneyUniversidad de Santiago de Chile

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Experiments on vertically oscillated granular layers in an evacuated container reveal a sequence of well-defined pattern bifurcations as the container acceleration is increased. Period doublings of the layer center of mass motion and a standing wave instability interact to produce hexagons and more complicated patterns composed of distinct spatial domains of different relative phase separated by kinks (phase discontinuities). A simple model displays quantitative agreement with the observed transition sequence.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a20550dd1ccedb5f95acf94https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.75.3838
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