GROUND-STATE OF AN ELECTRORHEOLOGICAL FLUID

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DAVIS, LC
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[1] Research Laboratory, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1992年 / 46卷 / 02期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.46.R719
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
The ground state of an electrorheological fluid is examined for high dielectric contrast (epsilon(p)/epsilon(f) --> infinity). In contrast to the result of Tao and Sun [Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 398 (1991)] for the dipole limit, three structures are found to be degenerate: face-centered cubic, hexagonal close packed, and body-centered tetragonal. However, particle column surface energy favors the body-centered tetragonal structure, which has a lower surface energy per particle at the critical volume fraction of particles.
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