On the spectrum behavior of vibrated granular matter
  A laser facility based on a linear image sensor with a sampling period of 100microseconds allows to investigate the dissipative dynamics of a vibrated granular matter under gravity. The laser reveals the vertical movement of an individual Zirconia-Ytria stabilized 2mm ball at the surface of a weakly excited 3D granular matter bed. The stochastic realizations are measured from the top of the container. Then, power spectra measurements reveal the different cooperative dynamics of the fluidized gap. We also carried out measurements for one steel ball and many balls in 1D and 3D systems. We fit the measured different regimes with generalized Langevin pictures. We introduce a fractional temporal operator to characterize the ensemble of dissipative particles which cannot be represented by a single Langevin particle in a complex fluid. 
Jorge E. Fiscina, Manuel O. Caceres, Frank Muecklich