Abstract
We report the emergence of large zigzag bands in a population of reversibly actuated magnetic rotors that behave as active shakers, namely squirmers that shake the fluid around them without moving. The shakers collectively organize into dynamic structures displaying self-similar growth and generate topological defects in the form of cusps that connect vortices of rolling particles with alternating chirality. By combining experimental analysis with particle-based simulation, we show that the special flow field created by the shakers is the only ingredient needed to reproduce the observed spatiotemporal pattern. We unveil a self-organization scenario in a collection of driven particles in a viscoelastic medium emerging from the reduced particle degrees of freedom, as here the frozen orientational motion of the shakers.
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