TY - JOUR A1 - Abbott, Joshua L. A1 - Straube, Arthur A1 - Aarts, Dirk G. A. L. A1 - Dullens, Roel P. A. T1 - Transport of a colloidal particle driven across a temporally oscillating optical potential energy landscape JF - New J. Phys. N2 - A colloidal particle is driven across a temporally oscillating one-dimensional optical potential energy landscape and its particle motion is analysed. Different modes of dynamic mode locking are observed and are confirmed with the use of phase portraits. The effect of the oscillation frequency on the mode locked step width is addressed and the results are discussed in light of a high-frequency theory and compared to simulations. Furthermore, the influence of the coupling between the particle and the optical landscape on mode locking is probed by increasing the maximum depth of the optical landscape. Stronger coupling is seen to increase the width of mode locked steps. Finally, transport across the temporally oscillating landscape is studied by measuring the effective diffusion coefficient of a mobile particle, which is seen to be highly sensitive to the driving velocity and mode locking. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab3765 VL - 21 SP - 083027 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Straube, Arthur A1 - Pagès, Josep M. A1 - Tierno, Pietro A1 - Ignés-Mullol, Jordi A1 - Sagués, Francesc T1 - Collective dynamics and conformal ordering in electrophoretically driven nematic colloids JF - Phys. Rev. Research N2 - We present a theoretical framework to understand the collective dynamics of an ensemble of electrophoretically driven colloidal particles that are forced to assemble around a single topological defect in a nematic liquid crystal by an alternating current electric field. Our generic model combines phoretic propulsion with electrostatic interactions and liquid-crystal-mediated hydrodynamics, which are effectively cast into a long-range interparticle repulsion, while nematic elasticity plays a subdominant role. Simulations based on this model fully capture the collective organization process observed in the experiments and other striking effects as the emergence of conformal ordering and a nearly frequency-independent repulsive interaction above 10Hz. Our results demonstrate the importance of hydrodynamic interactions on the assembly of driven microscale matter in anisotropic media. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.022008 VL - 1 SP - 022008 ER -