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Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Volume
529
Publisher
Elsevier BV * North-Holland
Publication Date
3-4-2021
Award Number
NSF, Division of Chemistry (CHE) 1808225
Funder
NSF, Division of Chemistry (CHE)
First Page
1
Last Page
18
Creative Commons License
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Abstract
We show that the energy, force, and torque between two spherically symmetric multipole density distributions are identical to those between two point multipoles, and apply this point-sphere equivalence to coated spherical dipole magnets. We also show that the potential and field of such a distribution are equivalent to those due to point multipoles located at the center of the distribution. We expand the inverse-distance potential in terms of harmonic (Hermite irreducible) tensors, whose properties enable us to express the potential energy, force, and torque for two arbitrary source distributions in a series of point-multipole interactions. This work generalizes recent work on interactions between uniformly magnetized dipole spheres [B. F. Edwards, D. M. Riffe, J.-Y. Ji, and W. A. Booth, Am. J. Phys. 85, 130 (2017)] to interactions between spherically-symmetric multipole spheres.
Recommended Citation
Ji, Jeong-Young, et al. “Potential, Field, and Interactions of Multipole Spheres: Coated Spherical Magnets.” Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 529, July 2021, p. 167861, doi:10.1016/j.jmmm.2021.167861.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2021.167861
