Phase transition and flow-rate behavior of merging granular flows.

Merging of granular flows is ubiquitous in industrial, mining, and geological processes. However, its behavior remains poorly understood. This paper studies the phase transition and flow-rate behavior of two granular flows merging into one channel.

Stop and restart of granular clock in a vibrated compartmentalized bidisperse granular system.

This paper studies a bidisperse granular mixture consisting of two species of stainless steel spheres in a vertically vibrated compartmentalized container. The experiments show that with proper vibration acceleration, the granular clock stops when horizontal segregation of the large spheres residing in the far end from the barrier wall occurs. When the segregation is broken, the granular clock restarts.

Weakening interaction suppresses spontaneous symmetry breaking in two-channel asymmetric exclusion processes.

This paper has studied spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) phenomenon in two types of two-channel asymmetric simple exclusion processes (ASEPs). One common feature of the two systems is that interactions for each species of particle happen at only one site, and the system reduces to two independent ASEPs when interaction vanishes. It is shown that with the weakening of interaction, the SSB is suppressed.