Humblonium: Classical Atoms and the Earnshaw Plasma

TL;DR

This paper proposes that electrostatic and diamagnetic forces can create long-lasting, metastable bound states and plasmas of macro and mesoscopic objects, potentially stable at high temperatures and against gravity.

Contribution

It introduces a novel concept of stable bound dimers and plasmas formed by macro objects through combined electrostatic and diamagnetic forces, expanding understanding of classical atomic-like systems.

Findings

Metastable bound dimers can exist for macro objects.

Stable plasmas of macro objects are possible under certain material conditions.

These systems can be stable at high temperatures and in Earth's gravity.

Abstract

It is shown that electrostatic and diamagnetic forces can combine to give long lasting metastable bound dimers of macro and mesoscopically sized objects for a physically attainable material regime. This can be a large enough effect to support itself in a trap against Earth's gravity and they can stable at very high temperatures. For a more restricted material parameter set, we investigate the possibility of stable many particle collections that lose their identity as bound pairs and create a kind of plasma. These would constitute a kind of transitional state between fluids and granular materials but, unlike usual approaches, the fluid is a gas rather than a liquid.