Thermal analog of gimbal lock in a colloidal ferromagnetic Janus rod
We report an entropy-driven orientational hopping transition in a magnetically confined colloidal Janus rod. In a magnetic field, the sedimented rod randomly hops between horizontal and vertical states: the latter state comes at a substantial gravitational cost at no reduction of magnetic potential...
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American Physical Society
2015
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