| Issue |
EPL
Volume 88, Number 6, December 2009
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 64002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/88/64002 | |
| Published online | 05 January 2010 | |
Clusters of charged diamagnetic particles levitating in nonuniform magnetic field
1
S.P. Korolev Rocket-Space Corporation “Energia” - Korolev, Russia
2
Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences - Moscow, 125412 Russia
Corresponding author: dyachk@mail.ru
Received:
16
October
2009
Accepted:
30
November
2009
For confinement and investigation of strongly coupled systems of charged macroparticles, we propose to use a trap based on the known possibility of the levitation of diamagnetic bodies in a nonuniform steady-state magnetic field. An experimental setup is described, which is capable of forming and confining clusters of charge graphite particles sized 100 to 300 μm in magnetic field B ~ 1 T and 
~ 10 T/cm. It is inferred that it will be possible to form stable 3D structures containing several thousands macroparticles under terrestrial conditions by using fields B > 10 T, and under microgravity conditions by using fields B ~ 0.1 T.
PACS: 45.50.Jf – Few- and many-body systems / 85.70.Rp – Magnetic levitation propulsion and control devices
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