Abstract
AbstractWe investigate a quasi-2D suspension of Brownian particles in an optical speckle field produced by holographic manipulation of a laser wavefront. This system was developed to study, in a systematic and controllable way, a distinctive instance of diffusion, called Fickian yet Non Gaussian diffusion (FnGD), observed, during the last decade, for colloidal particles in a variety of complex and biological fluids. Our setup generates an optical speckle field that behaves like a disordered set of optical traps. First, we describe the experimental setup and the dynamics of the particles, focusing on mean square displacements, displacement distributions and kurtosis. Then, we present Brownian Dynamics simulations of point-like particles in a complex energy landscape, mimicking that generated by the optical speckle field. We show that our simulations can capture the salient features of the experimental results, including the emergence of FnGD, also covering times longer than the ones so far achieved in experiments. Some deviations are observed at long time only, with the Gaussian restoring being slower in simulations than in experiments. Overall, the introduced numerical model might be exploited to guide the design of upcoming experiments targeted, for example, to fully monitor the recovery of Gaussianity.
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