Humblonium: Classical Atoms and the Earnshaw Plasma

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.