Symmetry breaking in a few-body system with magnetocapillary interactions

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Vandewalle, N ^a   Clermont, L ^a   Terwagne, D ^a   Dorbolo, S ^a,b   Mersch, E ^a   Lumay, G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b FRS FRNS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELDS; CAPILLARY FORCE; EQUILIBRIUM DISTANCES; FEW BODY SYSTEMS; FLOATING BODIES; INTERACTION POTENTIALS; IRREVERSIBLE PROCESS; MAGNETIC SPHERES; PHYSICAL FEATURES; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; VERTICAL MAGNETIC FIELDS;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

MAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 84860505642     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.041402     Document Type: Article

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