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Superconducting vortices provide experimental evidence that clogging is a phase transition
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The Brief
- Researchers from Science Tokyo used superconducting vortices to study clogging, a process in which moving particles get stuck and block flow.
- The study reports experimental evidence that clogging is a nonequilibrium phase transition.
- Previously, how this transition occurs had remained experimentally unproven.
Why it matters
The result gives experimental support to treating clogging as a phase transition, a framework that can inform how physicists model jamming and flow blockage in driven systems.
Who’s affected
- condensed matter and statistical physicists
- researchers studying granular flow and jamming
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Clogging is a phenomenon in which moving particles get stuck, slowing or blocking the flow, but how this transition occurs has remained experimentally unproven. Researchers from Science Tokyo studied superconducting vortices to demonstrate that clogging is a nonequilibrium phase…
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Superconducting vortices provide experimental evidence that clogging is a phase transition
Physics News reported the study demonstrating clogging as a nonequilibrium phase transition