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- Title
Crystallization waves in a dusty plasma.
- Authors
Klumov, B.A.; Rubin-Zuzic, M.; Morfill, G.E
- Abstract
Crystallization waves in the dusty component of a complex plasma, which were recently observed experimentally, have been investigated numerically. The evolution of the system of charged microparticles whose interaction between each other is described by a screened Coulomb potential (Yukawa potential) has been numerically simulated using the molecular dynamics method. It has been shown that the process of the formation and propagation of a crystallization wave in such a system is fundamentally three-dimensional. Analysis of the local structure of dust particles behind the crystallization wave front indicates the coexistence of different types of the crystal lattice including the metastable phase, i.e., a nonequilibrium phase transition.
- Subjects
WAVES (Physics); CRYSTALLIZATION; PLASMA gases; SIMULATION methods &; models; COULOMB functions
- Publication
JETP Letters, 2007, Vol 84, Issue 10, p542
- ISSN
0021-3640
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S0021364006220036