Goal of the experiment :

A walking droplet is placed in a square box, at the onset of Faraday thresold.

The trajectory of the droplet is mapped.
In the long time limit, does a self-interference pattern appear ? what’s its shape ? How does it relate to the square cavity surface wave eigen-modes ?

cf. experiment by Bush et al. : in a circular corral
http://dotwave.org/wavelike-statistics-from-pilot-wave-dynamics-in-a-circular-corral/

wavelike Statistics

In short, we try to reproduce the experiment of Bush et al, but in a square box.

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First result :

A walking droplet in a square cavity shows random motion, but with time, its trajectory is building a statistic reminiscent of the resonant mode of the cavity.

This can be seen by the naked eye in this movie excerpt :

This is then confirmed with optical tracking measurment of the trajectory :

trajectoire

Trajectory of the walking droplet

The position distribution (~probability density) is then computed :

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Probabilty density

 

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Emergent quantization of trajectories in a square box