Humblonium: Classical Atoms and the Earnshaw Plasma
Atomic and Molecular Clusters
2014-09-30 v1
Abstract
It is shown that electrostatic and diamagnetic forces can combine to give long lasting metastable bound dimers of macro and mesoscopically sized objects for a physically attainable material regime. This can be a large enough effect to support itself in a trap against Earth's gravity and they can stable at very high temperatures. For a more restricted material parameter set, we investigate the possibility of stable many particle collections that lose their identity as bound pairs and create a kind of plasma. These would constitute a kind of transitional state between fluids and granular materials but, unlike usual approaches, the fluid is a gas rather than a liquid.
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@article{arxiv.1409.7865,
title = {Humblonium: Classical Atoms and the Earnshaw Plasma},
author = {Clifford Chafin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.7865},
year = {2014}
}