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Juggling soliton: A new kind of wave-particle entity

Camila Sandivari1, Jacob Egge2, Belén Barraza1,*, Leonardo Gordillo3, and Nicolás Mujica1

  • 1Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8370449, Chile
  • 2Universität Hamburg HX8M+JR, Hamburg, Germany
  • 3Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencia, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Estación Central 9170124, Chile

  • *Present Address: Advanced Mining Technology Center, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Chile, Avenida Tupper 2007, Santiago 8370451, Chile.
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Phys. Rev. Fluids 8, 024401 – Published 10 February, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.024401

Abstract

We present an experimental study of a new kind of dual drop-wave entity existing on a localized structure in a water Faraday-wave system. A nonpropagating hydrodynamic soliton can juggle a single drop of ∼2–3.5 mm diameter for about 102–104 rebounds. By analyzing the drop trajectories, several regimes are observed: periodic bouncing, period doubling, period tripling, a sawtooth state, and chaotic/erratic trajectories. We present evidence that the most stable cases result from detuning of the drop self-oscillations and synchronization with the soliton's sloshing motion. This synchronization ensures stability and thus longer lifetimes. We analyzed the lifetime of the drop, concluding that the periodic behavior, which appears for the lowest-amplitude solitons, is the most stable state. Further analysis shows that lifetimes follow a Weibull distribution.

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Juggling Water Drops

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Phys. Rev. Fluids 8, 024401– Published 10 February, 2023
  • Received 10 June 2021
  • Accepted 13 December 2022
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