The phenomenon of group motion is common in nature,ranging from the schools of fish,birds and insects,to avalanches,landslides and sand drift.If we treat objects as collectively moving particles,such phenomena can be ...The phenomenon of group motion is common in nature,ranging from the schools of fish,birds and insects,to avalanches,landslides and sand drift.If we treat objects as collectively moving particles,such phenomena can be studied from a physical point of view,and the research on many-body systems has proved that marvelous effects can arise from the simplest individuals.The motion of numerous individuals presents different dynamic phases related to the ordering of the system.However,it is usually difficult to study the dynamic ordering and its transitions through experiments.Electron bubble states formed in a two-dimensional electron gas,as a type of electron solids,can be driven by an external electric field and provide a platform to study the dynamic collective behaviors.Here,we demonstrate that the noise spectrum is a powerful method to investigate the dynamics of bubble states.We observed not only the phenomena of dynamically ordered and disordered structures,but also unexpected alternations between them.Our results show that a dissipative system can convert between chaotic structures and ordered structures when tuning global parameters,which is concealed in conventional transport measurements of resistance or conductance.Moreover,charging the objects to study the electrical noise spectrum in collective motions can be an additional approach to revealing dynamic ordering transitions.展开更多
基金The work at PKU was supported by Beijing Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.JQ18002)the NSFC(Grants No.11921005,11674009)+2 种基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2017YFA0303301)the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB28000000)The work at Princeton University was funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's EPiQS Initiative,Grant GBMF9615 to L.N.Pfeiffer,and by the National Science Foundation MRSEC grant DMR-1420541.
文摘The phenomenon of group motion is common in nature,ranging from the schools of fish,birds and insects,to avalanches,landslides and sand drift.If we treat objects as collectively moving particles,such phenomena can be studied from a physical point of view,and the research on many-body systems has proved that marvelous effects can arise from the simplest individuals.The motion of numerous individuals presents different dynamic phases related to the ordering of the system.However,it is usually difficult to study the dynamic ordering and its transitions through experiments.Electron bubble states formed in a two-dimensional electron gas,as a type of electron solids,can be driven by an external electric field and provide a platform to study the dynamic collective behaviors.Here,we demonstrate that the noise spectrum is a powerful method to investigate the dynamics of bubble states.We observed not only the phenomena of dynamically ordered and disordered structures,but also unexpected alternations between them.Our results show that a dissipative system can convert between chaotic structures and ordered structures when tuning global parameters,which is concealed in conventional transport measurements of resistance or conductance.Moreover,charging the objects to study the electrical noise spectrum in collective motions can be an additional approach to revealing dynamic ordering transitions.