Fig. 5: Gyromer stability and breakage.
From: Hydrodynamic spin-pairing and active polymerization of oppositely spinning rotors
a All tested initial conditions resulted in the formation of a gyromer. b The number of rotors in the longest gyromer, lmax, divided by the total number of rotors, N, as a function of time normalized by average spin. Results are presented for N = 7, with additional results for a 5-gyromer (β = 0.3) and a 14-gyromer (β = 5). c The moment of breakage of a 9-gyromer. The gyromer broke into a dimer and a 7-gyromer. Analysis of the spin of the rotors shows that when the spin is decreased by more than twenty percent, the gyromer starts to disintegrate. Snapshots at three points in time are shown. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.
