Two walking droplets can interact in a “gravitationnal” way !
“Gravitating”
[VIDEO] The pilot-wave dynamics of walking droplets
A GREAT video by John BUSH and his team at MIT
Yves Couder Explains Wave/Particle Duality via Silicon Droplets
[VIDEO] Dynamical phenomena: Walking and orbiting droplets
From Couder’s Lab
Tunnel effect
From Couder’s Lab, supplementary info of Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 240401 (2009)
Self-organization of bouncing oil drops: Two-dimensional lattices and spinning clusters
Lieber, S. I., Hendershott, M. C., Pattanaporkratana, A., & Maclennan, J. E. (2007). Self-organization of bouncing oil drops: Two-dimensional lattices and spinning clusters. Physical Review E, 75(5), 056308.
http://www.physics.emory.edu/~weeks/lab/papers/lieber-pre07-drop.pdf
Level Splitting at Macroscopic Scale
Eddi, A., Moukhtar, J., Perrard, S., Fort, E., & Couder, Y. (2012). Level Splitting at Macroscopic Scale. Physical Review Letters, 108(26), 264503.
http://stilton.tnw.utwente.nl/people/eddi/Papers/PhysRevLett_Zeeman.pdf
A synthetic Schlieren method for the measurement of the topography of a liquid interface
Moisy, F., Rabaud, M., & Salsac, K. (2009). A synthetic Schlieren method for the measurement of the topography of a liquid interface. Experiments in fluids,46(6), 1021-1036.
Particle–wave association on a fluid interface
Protière, S., Boudaoud, A., & Couder, Y. (2006). Particle-wave association on a fluid interface. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 554(10), 85-108.
From Bouncing to Floating: Noncoalescence of Drops on a Fluid Bath
Couder, Y., Fort, E., Gautier, C. H., & Boudaoud, A. (2005). From bouncing to floating: Noncoalescence of drops on a fluid bath. Physical review letters,94(17), 177801.
http://www.lps.ens.fr/~boudaoud/Publis/Couder05Bounc.pdf
Gouttes rebondissantes : une association onde-particule (Thèse)
Protiere, S. (2007). Gouttes rebondissantes: une association onde-particule à échelle macroscopique (Doctoral dissertation, Université Paris-Diderot-Paris VII).
http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/19/26/20/PDF/these.pdf
Les gouttes marcheuses – Une forme de dualité onde-particule à échelle macroscopique?
Couder, Y., Boudaoud, A., Protière, S., & Fort, E. (2007). Les gouttes marcheuses-Une forme de dualité onde-particule à échelle macroscopique?.Reflets de la physique, (5), 20-24.
http://www.refletsdelaphysique.fr/articles/refdp/pdf/2007/03/refdp20075p20.pdf
Quantum mechanics writ large
Bush, J. W. (2010). Quantum mechanics writ large. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(41), 17455-17456.
Probabilities and trajectories in a classical wave-particle duality
Couder, Y., & Fort, E. (2012, May). Probabilities and trajectories in a classical wave-particle duality. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 361, No. 1, p. 012001). IOP Publishing.
http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/361/1/012001/pdf/1742-6596_361_1_012001.pdf
Information stored in Faraday waves: the origin of a path memory
Eddi, A., Sultan, E., Moukhtar, J., Fort, E., Rossi, M., & Couder, Y. (2011). Information stored in faraday waves: the origin of a path memory. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 674, 433.
http://stilton.tnw.utwente.nl/people/eddi/Papers/Walker_JFM.pdf
Unpredictable Tunneling of a Classical Wave-Particle Association
Eddi, A., Fort, E., Moisy, F., & Couder, Y. (2009). Unpredictable tunneling of a classical wave-particle association. Physical review letters, 102(24), 240401.
From Bouncing to Floating: Noncoalescence of drops on a fluid bath
Couder, Y., Fort, E., Gautier, C. H., & Boudaoud, A. (2005). From bouncing to floating: noncoalescence of drops on a fluid bath. Physical review letters,94(17), 177801..
http://www.lps.ens.fr/~boudaoud/Publis/Couder05Bounc.pdf
Single-Particle Diffraction and Interference at a Macroscopic Scale
Couder, Y., & Fort, E. (2006). Single-particle diffraction and interference at a macroscopic scale. Physical review letters, 97(15), 154101.
https://hekla.ipgp.fr/IMG/pdf/Couder-Fort_PRL_2006.pdf
Projet de physique expérimentale : Diffraction de gouttes marcheuses et particule dans une boîte
Un résumé de TP License 3 à l’ENS Lyon reproduisant l’expérience de diffraction à travers une fente :
Dynamical Phenomena : Walking and orbiting droplets
This is the first paper on the subject.
Couder, Y., Protiere, S., Fort, E., & Boudaoud, A. (2005). Dynamical phenomena: Walking and orbiting droplets. Nature, 437(7056), 208-208.
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emmanuel_Fort/