2009/12/09 by Domenico Gazzillo, Riccardo Fantoni, Achille Giacometti · 7 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Anisotropy #Antiparallel (mathematics) #Characterization and Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles #Composite material #Condensation #Hard spheres #Isotropy #Material Dynamics and Properties #Materials science #Optics #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Range (aeronautics) #SPHERES #Simple (philosophy) #Theoretical and Computational Physics #Thermodynamics #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.80.061207
published in Physical Review E 80(6), 061207 (American Physical Society) · 13 pages and 6 figures
arxiv created 2009/12/09 · openalex publication_date 2009/12/31 · arxiv updated 2015/05/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We discuss some interesting physical features stemming from our previous analytical study of a simple model of a fluid with dipolarlike interactions of very short range in addition to the usual isotropic Baxter potential for adhesive spheres. While the isotropic part is found to rule the global structural and thermodynamical equilibrium properties of the fluid, the weaker anisotropic part gives rise to an interesting short-range local ordering of nearly spherical condensation clusters, containing short portions of chains having nose-to-tail parallel alignment, which runs antiparallel to adjacent similar chains.