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Synchronized tumbling particles

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Magnetic particles have been made that undergo synchronized oscillations when suspended in liquid in a rotating magnetic field. This discovery links the fields of nonlinear dynamics and materials science. See Letter p.578

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  1. Sabine H. L. Klapp is at the Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany.,

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