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Molecular Helmholtz coils
Mesías Orozco-Ic1, Albeiro Restrepo2, Alvaro Muñoz-Castro3
1Departamento de Física Aplicada, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, Unidad Mérida. Km 6 Antigua Carretera a Progreso. Apdo. Postal 73, Cordemex, 97310 Mérida, Yuc., Mexico.
Abstract:
How to build a molecular Helmholtz coil? The possibility to create a Helmholtz coil at the molecular level is studied via the induced magnetic responses of several small cyclic hydrocarbon dimers with formula (CnHn)2 and Dnh symmetry (n = 6-10). Our results reveal that for n ≥ 8, π-electrons give rise to a uniform magnetic field within the central region between rings, satisfying the Helmholtz coil condition. This uniformity is independent of the intensity of the induced magnetic field.
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