Model for dynamic self-assembled magnetic surface structures

M. Belkin, A. Glatz, A. Snezhko, I. S. Aranson

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Abstract

We propose a first-principles model for the dynamic self-assembly of magnetic structures at a water-air interface reported in earlier experiments. The model is based on the Navier-Stokes equation for liquids in shallow water approximation coupled to Newton equations for interacting magnetic particles suspended at a water-air interface. The model reproduces most of the observed phenomenology, including spontaneous formation of magnetic snakelike structures, generation of large-scale vortex flows, complex ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic ordering of the snake, and self-propulsion of bead-snake hybrids.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number015301
JournalPhysical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
Volume82
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 7 2010

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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