TY - JOUR A1 - Stoop, Ralph L. A1 - Straube, Arthur A1 - Johansen, Tom H. A1 - Tierno, Pietro T1 - Collective directional locking of colloidal monolayers on a periodic substrate T2 - Phys. Rev. Lett. N2 - We investigate the directional locking effects that arise when a monolayer of paramagnetic colloidal particles is driven across a triangular lattice of magnetic bubbles. We use an external rotating magnetic field to generate a two-dimensional traveling wave ratchet forcing the transport of particles along a direction that intersects two crystallographic axes of the lattice. We find that, while single particles show no preferred direction, collective effects induce transversal current and directional locking at high density via a spontaneous symmetry breaking. The colloidal current may be polarized via an additional bias field that makes one transport direction energetically preferred. Y1 - 2020 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-zib/frontdoor/index/index/docId/7693 VL - 124 SP - 058002 ER -