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Although a driven colloidal suspension is not at equilibrium, a systematic study shows that such a system can still undergo a phase transition — albeit to a randomly organized state.

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Figure 1: Two ways in which time-reversibility can be broken in a periodically sheared, viscous suspension of large colloids.

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  1. Daan Frenkel is in the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK. df246@cam.ac.uk,

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Frenkel, D. Ordered chaos. Nature Phys 4, 345–346 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys973

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