Surface instabilities on liquid oxygen in an inhomogeneous magnetic field.
Liquid oxygen exhibits surface instabilities when subjected to a sufficiently strong magnetic field. A vertically oriented magnetic field gradient both increases the magnetic field value at which the pattern forms and shrinks the length scale of the surface patterning. We show that these effects of the field gradient may be described in terms of an "effective gravity," which in our experiments may be varied from 1 g to 360 g.
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School of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom.
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