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Structure and dynamics of a glass-forming binary complex plasma with non-reciprocal interaction

Plasma Physics 2018-09-26 v1

Abstract

In this letter, we present the first numerical study on the structural and dynamical properties of a quasi-two-dimensional (q2D) binary complex plasma with Langevin dynamics simulation. The effect of interaction with non-reciprocity on the structure is investigated by comparing systems with pure Yukawa and with point-wake Yukawa interactions. The long-time alpha-relaxation for the latter system is revealed by plotting and analyzing the intermediate scattering function. The results clearly indicate that a q2D binary complex plasma is a suitable model system to study the dynamics of a glass former. The non-reciprocity of the interactions shifts the glass formation significantly but leads to the same qualitative signatures as in the reciprocal case.

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@article{arxiv.1805.08964,
  title  = {Structure and dynamics of a glass-forming binary complex plasma with non-reciprocal interaction},
  author = {Yi-Fei Lin and Alexei Ivlev and Hartmut Loewen and Liang Hong and Cheng-Ran Du},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.08964},
  year   = {2018}
}
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