The focus of this project was to design a pilot wave hydrodynamic system with magnets and start a droplet. A droplet was started and showed a start to walking like behavior, it stayed to the left side of the bath.
It is clear that the droplet favors the left side of the oil bath. It is asymmetric due to an unknown source of error. The oil bath is symmetric, so symmetric results were targeted. The oil bath that was designed previously in the UNC physics lab was symmetrical. The tracking for the oil bath previously designed in UNC’s lab is shown in figure 10. This is the target for our oil bath, the next step in the experiment.
The bath was able to produce walking droplets at higher frequencies such as 80Hz. The droplet stayed to the bottom side of the bath. This was experimented with tweaking the bath, moving the bath, and changing the bath. None of these worked, even though the droplet was staying toward the bottom when tracked the rings were starting to form. This was showing the Quantum Corralling effects (19a). The droplet needs to be able to move freely throughout the entire bath so that the full corralling effect can be tracked and recorded. When the frequencies were lower, around 60 Hz, the droplet would stay in the left side of the bath and not move from that spot. This shows again that the bath is asymmetric and that this needs to be fixed. As of now this is an unknown source of error.
The oscillation of the bath worked very well. There was nothing physically holding the bath straight up but the magnetic push of the ring magnet, a frictionless system. There were certain frequencies where the oscillation would become louder meaning it would have trouble around 75Hz.
It is clear that the droplet favors the left side of the oil bath. It is asymmetric due to an unknown source of error. The oil bath is symmetric, so symmetric results were targeted. The oil bath that was designed previously in the UNC physics lab was symmetrical. The tracking for the oil bath previously designed in UNC’s lab is shown in figure 10. This is the target for our oil bath, the next step in the experiment.
The bath was able to produce walking droplets at higher frequencies such as 80Hz. The droplet stayed to the bottom side of the bath. This was experimented with tweaking the bath, moving the bath, and changing the bath. None of these worked, even though the droplet was staying toward the bottom when tracked the rings were starting to form. This was showing the Quantum Corralling effects (19a). The droplet needs to be able to move freely throughout the entire bath so that the full corralling effect can be tracked and recorded. When the frequencies were lower, around 60 Hz, the droplet would stay in the left side of the bath and not move from that spot. This shows again that the bath is asymmetric and that this needs to be fixed. As of now this is an unknown source of error.
The oscillation of the bath worked very well. There was nothing physically holding the bath straight up but the magnetic push of the ring magnet, a frictionless system. There were certain frequencies where the oscillation would become louder meaning it would have trouble around 75Hz.