Normal modes of a quasi-one-dimensional multi-chain complex plasma
Abstract
We studied equally charged particles, suspended in a complex plasma, which move in a plane and interact with a screened Coulomb potential (Yukawa type) and with an additional external confining parabolic potential in one direction, that makes the system quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D). The normal modes of the system are studied in the presence of dissipation. We also investigated how a perpendicular magnetic field couples the phonon modes with each other. Two different ways of exciting the normal modes are discussed: 1) a uniform excitation of the Q1D lattice, and 2) a local forced excitation of the system in which one particle is driven by e.g. a laser. Our results are in very good agreement with recent experimental findings on a finite single chain system (Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 91}, 255003 (2003)). Predictions are made for the normal modes of multi-chain structures in the presence of damping.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0409548,
title = {Normal modes of a quasi-one-dimensional multi-chain complex plasma},
author = {G. Piacente and F. M. Peeters and J. J. Betouras},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0409548},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication on PRE