The Spear and the Ring: Emergent Structures in Magnetic Colloidal Suspensions

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Main Authors: Côte, Raphaël, Courtès, Clémentine, Ferrière, Guillaume, Godard-Cadillac, Ludovic, Privat, Yannick
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author Côte, Raphaël
Courtès, Clémentine
Ferrière, Guillaume
Godard-Cadillac, Ludovic
Privat, Yannick
author_facet Côte, Raphaël
Courtès, Clémentine
Ferrière, Guillaume
Godard-Cadillac, Ludovic
Privat, Yannick
contents We study from a mathematical point of view the nanoparticle model of a magnetic colloid, presented by G. Klughertz. Our objective is to obtain properties of stable stationary structures that arise in the long-time limit for the magnetic nanoparticles dynamics following this model. In this article, we present a detailed study of two specific structures using techniques from the calculus of variations. The first, called the spear, consists of a chain of aligned particles interacting via a Lennard-Jones potential. We establish existence and uniqueness results, derive bounds on the distances between neighboring particles, and provide a sharp asymptotic description as the number of particles tends to infinity. The second structure, the ring, features particles uniformly distributed along a circle. We prove its existence and uniqueness and derive an explicit formula for its radius.
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spellingShingle The Spear and the Ring: Emergent Structures in Magnetic Colloidal Suspensions
Côte, Raphaël
Courtès, Clémentine
Ferrière, Guillaume
Godard-Cadillac, Ludovic
Privat, Yannick
Mathematical Physics
Optimization and Control
We study from a mathematical point of view the nanoparticle model of a magnetic colloid, presented by G. Klughertz. Our objective is to obtain properties of stable stationary structures that arise in the long-time limit for the magnetic nanoparticles dynamics following this model. In this article, we present a detailed study of two specific structures using techniques from the calculus of variations. The first, called the spear, consists of a chain of aligned particles interacting via a Lennard-Jones potential. We establish existence and uniqueness results, derive bounds on the distances between neighboring particles, and provide a sharp asymptotic description as the number of particles tends to infinity. The second structure, the ring, features particles uniformly distributed along a circle. We prove its existence and uniqueness and derive an explicit formula for its radius.
title The Spear and the Ring: Emergent Structures in Magnetic Colloidal Suspensions
topic Mathematical Physics
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02379