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Syracuse University

2014

Physics

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Multiple Transient Memories In Experiments On Sheared Non-Brownian Suspensions, Joseph Paulsen, Nathan C. Keim, Sidney R. Nagel Jan 2014

Multiple Transient Memories In Experiments On Sheared Non-Brownian Suspensions, Joseph Paulsen, Nathan C. Keim, Sidney R. Nagel

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A system with multiple transient memories can remember a set of inputs but subsequently forgets almost all of them, even as they are continually applied. If noise is added, the system can store all memories indefinitely. The phenomenon has recently been predicted for cyclically sheared non-Brownian suspensions. Here we present experiments on such suspensions, finding behavior consistent with multiple transient memories and showing how memories can be stabilized by noise.