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The shear viscosity of a two-dimensional liquid-state dusty plasma was measured experimentally. A monolayer of highly charged polymer microspheres, with a Yukawa interaction, was suspended in a plasma sheath. Two counter-propagating Ar…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Nosenko , J. Goree

Dust Dynamics Simulations utilizing a dynamical screening approach are performed to study the effect of ion-streaming on the self-organized structures in a three-dimensional spherically confined complex (dusty) plasma. Varying the Mach…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-04-22 Patrick Ludwig , Hanno Kählert , Michael Bonitz

The structure and dynamics of a harmonically confined three dimensional finite dust cluster are investigated via both Langevin Dynamics (LD) and frictionless Molecular Dynamics (fMD) simulation. The static structure of the system is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Hirakjyoti Sarma , Nilakshi Das

We numerically examine driven skyrmions interacting with a periodic quasi-one dimensional substrate where the driving force is applied either parallel or perpendicular to the substrate periodicity direction. For perpendicular driving, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-06 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Shapiro steps are quantized plateaus in the velocity-force or velocity-torque curve of a driven system, when its speed remains constant despite an increase in the driving force. For microscopic particles driven across a sinusoidal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-18 Andris P. Stikuts , Seemant Mishra , Artem Ryabov , Philipp Maass , Pietro Tierno

We comprehensively study external forcing-driven dynamical structure formation in a binary dusty plasma mixture. Using two-dimensional driven-dissipative molecular dynamics simulations, we demonstrate phase segregation into bands and lanes…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Farida Batool , Sandeep Kumar , Sanat Kumar Tiwari

The mobility of a charged projectile in a strongly coupled dusty plasma is simulated. A net force $F$, opposed by a combination of collisional scattering and gas friction, causes projectiles to drift at a mobility-limited velocity $u_p$.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Bin Liu , J. Goree

We theoretically study the Shapiro steps in a hetero Josephson junction made of a single-gap superconductor and a two-gap one. We find that an anomalous DC Josephson current is induced by tuning the frequency of an applied microwave to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-10-28 Yukihiro Ota , Masahiko Machida , Tomio Koyama

Microwave response of S-shaped Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu2O$_{8+x}$ (Bi-2212) micron-scale samples, in which the supercurrent was forced to flow perpendicular to the crystal layers, was investigated. A treatment with a focused ion beam allowed us to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-02-15 Myung-Ho Bae , R. C. Dinsmore , M. Sahu , Hu-Jong Lee , A. Bezryadin

Dynamic axion insulators feature a time-dependent axion field that can be induced by antiferromagnetic resonance. Here, we show that a Josephson junction incorporating this dynamic axion insulator between two superconductors exhibits a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-14 Yu-Hang Li , Ziqian Zhou , Ran Cheng , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

The phenomenon of nonlinear wave mixing is investigated in a Yukawa one-component plasma using two-dimensional classical Langevin molecular dynamics simulations. The wave spectrum indicates that nonlinear interactions between the excited…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Ajaz Mir , Farida Batool , Sanat Tiwari , Abhijit Sen

Majorana zero modes are predicted in several solid state systems such as hybrid superconductor-semiconductor structures and topological insulators coupled to superconductors. One of the expected signatures of Majorana modes is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 S. R. Mudi , S. M. Frolov

A self-consistent three-dimensional model for a complex (dusty) plasma is used to study the effects of multiple-sized dust grains in a dust crystal. In addition to the interparticle forces, which interact through a Yukawa potential, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. S. Matthews , K. Qiao , T. W. Hyde

We analyze the current-biased Shapiro experiment in a Josephson junction formed by two one-dimensional nanowires featuring Majorana fermions. Ideally, these junctions are predicted to have an unconventional $4\pi$-periodic Josephson effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 Fernando Domínguez , Fabian Hassler , Gloria Platero

Josephson junctions hosting Majorana fermions have been predicted to exhibit a 4$\pi$ periodic current phase relation. The experimental consequence of this periodicity is the disappearance of odd steps in Shapiro steps experiments.…

We investigate the physical properties of steady flows in a holographic first-order phase transition model, extending from the thermodynamics at equilibrium to the real-time dynamics far from equilibrium. Through spinodal decomposition or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-24 Qian Chen , Yuxuan Liu , Yu Tian , Xiaoning Wu , Hongbao Zhang

The dynamical onset of lane formation is studied in experiments with binary complex plasmas under microgravity conditions. Small microparticles are driven and penetrate into a cloud of big particles, revealing a strong tendency towards lane…

In this article we examine the dynamics of a colloidal particle driven by a modulated force over a sinusoidal optical potential energy landscape. Coupling between the competing frequencies of the modulated drive and that of particle motion…

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

A model of a superconducting tunnel junction coupled to a mechanical oscillator is studied at zero temperature in the case of linear coupling between the oscillator and tunneling electrons. It is found that the Josephson current flowing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian-Xin Zhu , Z. Nussinov , A. V. Balatsky