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In this research, formation of finite two-dimensional (2D) plasma crystals was numerically simulated. The structure was investigated for systems with various Debye length and it was found there is a transition from a complete hexagonal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-07-27 K. Qiao , T. W. Hyde

The plasma is generated in a low frequency glow discharge within an elongated glass tube oriented vertically. The dust particles added to the plasma are confined above the heater and form counter-rotating clouds close to the tube centre.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-08-14 S. Mitic , R. Suetterlin , A. V. Ivlev , H. Hoefner , M. H. Thoma , S. Zhdanov , G. E. Morfill

A versatile linear dusty (complex) plasma device is designed to study the transport and dynamical behavior of dust particles in a large volume. Diffused inductively coupled plasma is generated in the background of argon gas. A novel…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Mangilal Choudhary , S. Mukherjee , P. Bandyopadhyay

Collective response of the plasma medium is well known and has been explored extensively in several contexts. The single particle response is typically treated as collisional interactions leading to dissipative effects. In this manuscript a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Srimanta Maity , Amita Das , Sandeep Kumar , Sanat Kumar Tiwari

Dust particles immersed within a plasma environment, such as those in protostellar clouds, planetary rings or cometary environments, will acquire an electric charge. If the ratio of the inter-particle potential energy to the average kinetic…

Space Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Smith , J. Vasut , T. Hyde , L. Matthews , J. Reay , M. Cook , J. Schmoke

The formation of self-consistent dust crystal and its melting is a well known phenomenon in rf generated plasma but remains challenging in DC glow discharge plasma. Here, we report the melting of a two dimensional dusty plasma crystal,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-01 S. Jaiswal , Ed Thomas

The effective increase of the critical density associated with the interaction of relativistically intense laser pulses with overcritical plasmas, known as self-induced transparency, is revisited for the case of circular polarization. A…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-11-16 E. Siminos , M. Grech , S. Skupin , T. Schlegel , V. T. Tikhonchuk

Using numerical simulations, we investigate the equilibrium dynamics of a single component fluid with Yukawa interaction potential. We show that, for a wide range of densities and temperatures, the dynamics of the system are in striking…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 James P. Mithen , Jérôme Daligault , Basil J. B. Crowley , Gianluca Gregori

In semiconductor manufacturing, contamination due to particulates significantly decreases the yield and quality of device fabrication, therefore increasing the cost of production. Dust particle clouds can be found in almost all plasma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Smith , T. Hyde , L. Matthews , J. Reay , M. Cook , J. Schmoke

A two-dimensional dust crystal levitated in the sheath of a modified Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC) reference cell is manipulated by heating or cooling the lower electrode. The dust charge is obtained from top-view pictures of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-10-20 Victor Land , Bernard Smith , Lorin Matthews , Truell Hyde

We perform microscopic simulations of the thermal relaxation of warm neutral plasmas of astrophysical importance. Using Molecular Dynamics we study the thermal relaxation of a hot neutral fluid of finite-size neutron-rich ions kept in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 David Barba-González , Conrado Albertus , M. Ángeles Pérez-García

A combined theoretical and experimental analysis of the normal modes of three-dimensional spherially confined Yukawa clusters is presented. Particular attention is paid to the breathing mode and the existence of multiple monopole…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Henning , H. Kählert , P. Ludwig , A. Melzer , M. Bonitz

The phase diagram of Yukawa particles confined between two parallel hard walls is calculated at zero-temperature beyond the bilayer regime by lattice-sum-minimization. Tuning the screening, a rich phase behavior is found in the regime…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-18 Erdal Celal Oğuz , René Messina , Hartmut Löwen

The collective behavior of levitated particles in a weakly-ionized plasma (dusty plasma) has raised significant scientific interest. This is due to the complex array of forces acting on the particles, and their potential to act as in-situ…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Wentao Yu , Justin C. Burton

We present a new type of phase-change behavior relevant for information storage applications, that can be observed in 2D systems with cluster-forming ability. The temperature-based control of the ordering in 2D particle systems depends on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-30 Rogelio Díaz-Méndez , Guido Pupillo , Fabio Mezzacapo , Mats Wallin , Jack Lidmar , Egor Babaev

Dusty plasmas consists of an ionized gas containing small (usually negatively charged) particles. Dusty plasmas are of interest in both astrophysics and space physics as well as in research in plasma processing and nanofabrication. In this…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Qiao , T. W. Hyde

The DCA$^+$ algortihm was recently introduced to extend the dynamic cluster approximation (DCA) with a continuous lattice self-energy in order to achieve better convergence with cluster size. Here we extend the DCA$^+$ algorithm to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-18 Peter Staar , Thomas Maier , Thomas Schulthess

We present an investigation of the combined effects of the Debye-Huckel (DH) repulsive and overlaping Debye spheres (ODS) attractive interaction potentials around charged dust particles on collective modes, phase separation and ordered dust…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-05-31 Zoltan Donko , Peter Hartmann , Padma K. Shukla

We study electrostatic and phonon properties of Yukawa crystals. It is shown that in the harmonic approximation these systems which is in use in the theory dusty plasma can be described analytically by the model from the theory of neutron…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-01-15 A. A. Kozhberov

The thermodynamic and structural properties of two dimensional dense Yukawa liquids are studied with molecular dynamics simulations. The "exact" thermodynamic properties are simultaneously employed in an advanced scheme for the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-15 F. Lucco Castello , P. Tolias