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Maity S, Arora G. Amplitude modulation and surface wave generation in a complex plasma monolayer. Phys Rev E 2023; 108:065202. [PMID: 38243528 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.065202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2023] [Accepted: 11/08/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2024]
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The response of a two-dimensional plasma crystal to an externally imposed initial perturbation has been explored using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. A two-dimensional (2D) monolayer of micron-sized charged particles (dust) is formed in the plasma environment under certain conditions. The particles interacting via Yukawa pair potential are confined in the vertical (z[over ̂]) direction by an external parabolic confinement potential, which mimics the combined effect of gravity and the sheath electric field typically present in laboratory dusty plasma experiments. An external perturbation is introduced in the medium by displacing a small central region of particles in the vertical direction. The displaced particles start to oscillate in the vertical direction, and their dynamics get modulated through a parametric decay process generating beats. It has also been shown that the same motion is excited in the dynamics of unperturbed particles. A simple theoretical model is provided to understand the origin of the beat motions of particles. Additionally, in our simulations, concentric circular wavefronts propagating radially outward are observed on the surface of the monolayer. The physical mechanism and parametric dependence of the observed phenomena are discussed in detail. This research sheds light on the medium's ability to exhibit macroscopic softness, a pivotal characteristic of soft matter, while sustaining surface wave modes. Our findings are also relevant to other strongly coupled systems, such as colloids and classical one-component plasmas.
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- Srimanta Maity
- ELI Beamlines Facility, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Za Radnicí 835, 25241 Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 18200 Prague, Czech Republic
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Huang H, Ivlev AV, Nosenko V, Yang W, Du CR. Dissipative solitary waves in a two-dimensional complex plasma: Amorphous versus crystalline. Phys Rev E 2023; 107:045205. [PMID: 37198834 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.107.045205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2023] [Accepted: 03/22/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The propagation of a dissipative soliton was experimentally studied in a two-dimensional binary complex plasma. The crystallization was suppressed in the center of the particle suspension where two types of particles were mixed. The motions of individual particles were recorded using video microscopy, and the macroscopic properties of the solitons were measured in the amorphous binary mixture in the center and in the plasma crystal in the periphery. Although the overall shape and parameters of solitons propagating in amorphous and crystalline regions were quite similar, their velocity structures at small scales as well as the velocity distributions were profoundly distinct. Moreover, the local structure rearranged drastically in and behind the soliton, which was not observed in the plasma crystal. Langevin dynamics simulations were performed, and the results agreed with the experimental observations.
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- He Huang
- College of Science, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, People's Republic of China
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- Max Plank Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching 85748, Germany
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- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Cologne 51147, Germany
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- College of Science, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, People's Republic of China
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- College of Science, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, People's Republic of China
- Member of Magnetic Confinement Fusion Research Centre, Ministry of Education, Shanghai 201620, People's Republic of China
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Complex plasma research under microgravity conditions. NPJ Microgravity 2023; 9:13. [PMID: 36750724 PMCID: PMC9905515 DOI: 10.1038/s41526-023-00261-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2023] [Indexed: 02/09/2023] Open
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The future of complex plasma research under microgravity condition, in particular on the International Space Station ISS, is discussed. First, the importance of this research and the benefit of microgravity investigations are summarized. Next, the key knowledge gaps, which could be topics of future microgravity research are identified. Here not only fundamental aspects are proposed but also important applications for lunar exploration as well as artificial intelligence technology are discussed. Finally, short, middle and long-term recommendations for complex plasma research under microgravity are given.
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Bagchi D. Macroscopic charge segregation in driven polyelectrolyte solutions. SOFT MATTER 2022; 18:5676-5686. [PMID: 35861507 DOI: 10.1039/d2sm00448h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Understanding the behavior of charged complex fluids is crucial for a plethora of important industrial, technological, and medical applications. Here, using coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the properties of a polyelectrolyte solution with explicit counterions and implicit solvent that is driven by a steady electric field. By properly tuning the interplay between interparticle electrostatics and the applied electric field, we uncover two non-equilibrium continuous phase transitions as a function of the driving field. The first transition occurs from a homogeneous mixed phase to a macroscopic charge-segregated phase in which the polyelectrolyte solution self-organizes to form two lanes of like-charges, parallel to the applied field. We show that the fundamental underlying factor responsible for the emergence of this charge segregation in the presence of an electric field is the excluded volume interactions of the drifting polyelectrolyte chains. As the driving field is increased further, a re-entrant transition is observed from a charge-segregated phase to a homogeneous phase. The re-entrance is signaled by a decrease in the mobility of the monomers and counterions as the electric field is increased. Furthermore, with multivalent counterions, a counterintuitive regime of negative differential mobility is observed in which the charges move progressively more slowly as the driving field is increased. We show that all these features can be consistently explained using an intuitive trapping mechanism that operates between the oppositely moving charges, and present numerical evidence to support our claims. Parameter dependencies and phase diagrams are studied to better understand charge segregation in such driven polyelectrolyte solutions.
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- Debarshee Bagchi
- International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru, India.
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Fleig P, Nemenman I. Statistical properties of large data sets with linear latent features. Phys Rev E 2022; 106:014102. [PMID: 35974629 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.106.014102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2022] [Accepted: 05/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Analytical understanding of how low-dimensional latent features reveal themselves in large-dimensional data is still lacking. We study this by defining a probabilistic linear latent features model with additive noise and by analytically and numerically computing the statistical distributions of pairwise correlations and eigenvalues of the data correlation matrix. This allows us to resolve the latent feature structure across a wide range of data regimes set by the number of recorded variables, observations, latent features, and the signal-to-noise ratio. We find a characteristic imprint of latent features in the distribution of correlations and eigenvalues and provide an analytic estimate for the boundary between signal and noise, even in the absence of a spectral gap.
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- Philipp Fleig
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA; Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA; and Initiative in Theory and Modeling of Living Systems, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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Wieben F, Block D, Himpel M, Melzer A. Configurational temperature of multispecies dusty plasmas. Phys Rev E 2021; 104:045205. [PMID: 34781566 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.104.045205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2021] [Accepted: 09/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The dust charge of the two species in a binary mixture of particles in a dusty plasma has been measured using the concept of configurational temperature. There, the dust charge and the respective dust charge ratio are determined from the comparison of the instantaneous particle positions and the kinetic temperature. For that purpose, experiments of binary mixtures of melamine-formaldehyde and silica particles have been evaluated. The configurational temperature approach has also been checked against simulations. From these analyses it is found that the charge ratio of the two species can be obtained quite accurately, whereas for the determination of the absolute charge values a good knowledge of the confining potential is required.
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- Frank Wieben
- IEAP, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, D-24098 Kiel, Germany
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- IEAP, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, D-24098 Kiel, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Greifswald, 17489 Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Greifswald, 17489 Greifswald, Germany
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Kryuchkov NP, Dmitryuk NA, Li W, Ovcharov PV, Han Y, Sapelkin AV, Yurchenko SO. Mean-field model of melting in superheated crystals based on a single experimentally measurable order parameter. Sci Rep 2021; 11:17963. [PMID: 34504154 PMCID: PMC8429456 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-97124-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2021] [Accepted: 08/20/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Melting is one of the most studied phase transitions important for atomic, molecular, colloidal, and protein systems. However, there is currently no microscopic experimentally accessible criteria that can be used to reliably track a system evolution across the transition, while providing insights into melting nucleation and melting front evolution. To address this, we developed a theoretical mean-field framework with the normalised mean-square displacement between particles in neighbouring Voronoi cells serving as the local order parameter, measurable experimentally. We tested the framework in a number of colloidal and in silico particle-resolved experiments against systems with significantly different (Brownian and Newtonian) dynamic regimes and found that it provides excellent description of system evolution across melting point. This new approach suggests a broad scope for application in diverse areas of science from materials through to biology and beyond. Consequently, the results of this work provide a new guidance for nucleation theory of melting and are of broad interest in condensed matter, chemical physics, physical chemistry, materials science, and soft matter.
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- Nikita P Kryuchkov
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya street 5, Moscow, Russia, 105005
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- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya street 5, Moscow, Russia, 105005
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- Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya street 5, Moscow, Russia, 105005
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- Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya street 5, Moscow, Russia, 105005
- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 4NS, England
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- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya street 5, Moscow, Russia, 105005.
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Hong XR, Sun W, Schwabe M, Du CR, Duan WS. Reflection and transmission of an incident solitary wave at an interface of a binary complex plasma in a microgravity condition. Phys Rev E 2021; 104:025206. [PMID: 34525546 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.104.025206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2021] [Accepted: 08/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Theoretical results are given in the present paper, which can well explain the experimental observations performed under microgravity conditions in the PK-3 Plus Laboratory on board the International Space Station about the propagation of a solitary wave across an interface in a binary complex plasma. By using the traditional reductive perturbation method and the continuity conditions of both the electric potential and the momentum at the interface, we obtain the equivalent "initial conditions" for both the transmitted wave and the reflected waves from the incident wave. Then we obtain the numbers of the reflected and the transmitted solitary waves as well as all the wave amplitudes by using the inverse scattering method. The ripples of both reflection and transmission have also been given by using the Fourier series. The number of the reflected and the transmitted solitary waves produced by interface, as well as all the solitary wave amplitudes, depend on the system parameters such as the number density, electric charge, mass of the dust particles, and the effective temperature in both regions. The analytical results agree with observations in the experiments.
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- Xue-Ren Hong
- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Northwest Normal University, 730070 Lanzhou, People's Republic of China
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- College of Science, Donghua University, 201620 Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), 82234 Weßling, Germany
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- College of Science, Donghua University, 201620 Shanghai, People's Republic of China
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- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Northwest Normal University, 730070 Lanzhou, People's Republic of China
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Schütt S, Melzer A. Simulations and experiments of phase separation in binary dusty plasmas. Phys Rev E 2021; 103:053203. [PMID: 34134330 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.053203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2021] [Accepted: 04/16/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Molecular dynamics simulations of binary dusty plasmas have been performed and their behavior with respect to the phase separation process has been analyzed. The simulated system was inspired by experimental research on phase separation in dusty plasmas under microgravity on parabolic flights. Despite vortex formation in the experiment and in the simulations the phase separation could be identified. From the simulations it is found that even the smallest charge disparities lead to phase separation. The separation is due to the force imbalance on the two species and the separation becomes weaker with increasing mean particle size. In comparison, experiments on the phase separation have been performed and analyzed in view of the separation dynamics. It is found that the experimental results are reproduced by the simulation regarding the dependency on the size disparity of the two particle species.
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- Stefan Schütt
- Institute of Physics, University of Greifswald, 17489 Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Greifswald, 17489 Greifswald, Germany
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Huang H, Schwabe M, Thomas HM, Lipaev AM, Du CR. Penetration of a supersonic particle at the interface in a binary complex plasma. Phys Rev E 2021; 103:013205. [PMID: 33601562 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.013205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2020] [Accepted: 12/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The penetration of a supersonic particle at the interface is studied in a binary complex plasma. Inspired by the experiments performed in the PK-3 Plus Laboratory on board the International Space Station, Langevin dynamics simulations were carried out. A Mach cone structure forms in the lateral wave behind the supersonic extra particle, where the kink of the cone flanks is observed at the interface. The propagation of the pulse-like perturbation along the interface is demonstrated by the evolution of the radial and axial velocity of the small particles in the vicinity of the interface. The decay of the pulse strength is determined by the friction, where the propagation distance can reach several interparticle distances for small damping rate. The dependence of the dynamics of the background particles in the vicinity of the interface on the penetration direction implies that the disparity of the mobility may be the cause of various interfacial effects.
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- He Huang
- College of Science, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, People's Republic of China
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- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Weßling 82234, Germany
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- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Weßling 82234, Germany
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- Joint Institute for High Temperature, Moscow 125412, Russia.,Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Dolgoprudny 141701, Russia
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- College of Science, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, People's Republic of China.,Member of Magnetic Confinement Fusion Research Centre, Ministry of Education, Shanghai 201620, People's Republic of China
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Yang F, Kong W, Liu SF, Wang CZ. Structure of a two-dimensional superparamagnetic system in a quadratic trap. Phys Rev E 2020; 102:043213. [PMID: 33212587 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.102.043213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2020] [Accepted: 10/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Ground-state structures of a two-dimensional (2D) system composed of superparamagnetic charged particles are investigated by means of molecular dynamics simulation. The charged particles trapped in a quadratic potential interact with each other via the repulsive, attractive, and magnetic dipole-dipole forces. Simulations are performed within two regimes: a one-component system and a two-component system where the charged particles have the identical charge-to-mass ratio. The effects of magnetic dipole-dipole interaction, mixing ratio of the two species and confinement frequency on the ground-state structures are discussed. It is found that as the strength of the magnetic dipole increases, the charged particles tend to self-organize into chainlike structures. The two species particles exhibit different structural features, depending on the competition of electrostatic repulsive interaction, magnetic dipole-dipole interaction and confinement force. The potential lanes are observed through analyzing the global potential of the magnetic particles, which guide the unmagnetic particles aligning themselves in the direction of the potential lanes.
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- F Yang
- College of Science, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China
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- College of Science, Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin 300300, China
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- School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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- School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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Kryuchkov NP, Mistryukova LA, Sapelkin AV, Yurchenko SO. Strange attractors induced by melting in systems with nonreciprocal effective interactions. Phys Rev E 2020; 101:063205. [PMID: 32688518 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.101.063205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2020] [Accepted: 06/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Newton's third law-the action-reaction symmetry-can be violated for effective interbody forces in open and nonequilibrium systems that are ubiquitous in areas as diverse as complex plasmas, colloidal suspensions, active and living soft matter, and social behavior. While studying monolayer complex plasma (confined charged particles in an ionized gas) with nonreciprocal interactions mediated by plasma flows, in silico we found that an interplay between melting and thermal activation drastically transforms the collective dynamics: the order-disorder transition modifies the system's thermal steady state so that the crystal tends to melt, whereas the fluid tends to freeze, jumping chaotically between the two states. We identified this collective chaotic behavior as strange attractors formed in a monolayer complex plasma and link the strange attractor behavior to the specifics of interparticle interactions.
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- Nikita P Kryuchkov
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia
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- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom
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- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia
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Schütt S, Himpel M, Melzer A. Experimental investigation of phase separation in binary dusty plasmas under microgravity. Phys Rev E 2020; 101:043213. [PMID: 32422821 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.101.043213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2020] [Accepted: 04/07/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Three-dimensionally extended dusty plasmas containing mixtures of two particle species of different size have been investigated under microgravity conditions. To distinguish the species even at small size disparities, one of the species is marked with a fluorescent dye, and a modified two-camera video microscopy setup is used for position determination and tracking. Phase separation is found even when the size disparity is below 5%. Particles are tracked to obtain the diffusion flux, and resulting diffusion coefficients are calculated to be about -10^{-6}mm^{2}/s, which is in the expected range for a phase separation process driven by plasma forces. Additionally, a measure for the strength of the phase separation is presented that allows us to quickly characterize measurements. There is a clear correlation between size disparity and phase separation strength.
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- Stefan Schütt
- Institute of Physics, University of Greifswald, 17489 Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Greifswald, 17489 Greifswald, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Greifswald, 17489 Greifswald, Germany
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Caplan ME. Structure of multicomponent Coulomb crystals. Phys Rev E 2020; 101:023201. [PMID: 32168567 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.101.023201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2019] [Accepted: 01/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Coulomb plasmas crystallize in a number of physical systems, such as dusty plasmas, neutron star crusts, and white dwarf cores. The crystal structure of the one-component and binary plasma has received significant attention in the literature, though the less studied multicomponent plasma may be most relevant for many physical systems which contain a large range of particle charges. We report on molecular dynamics simulations of multicomponent plasmas near the melting temperature with mixtures taken to be realistic x-ray burst ash compositions. We quantify the structure of the crystal with the bond order parameters and radial distribution function. Consistent with past work, low charge particles form interstitial defects and we argue that they are in a quasiliquid state within the lattice. The lattice shows screening effects which preserves long-range order despite the large variance in particle charges, which may impact transport properties relevant to astrophysics.
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- M E Caplan
- Department of Physics, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois 61761, USA
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He YF, Ai BQ, Dai CX, Song C, Wang RQ, Sun WT, Liu FC, Feng Y. Experimental Demonstration of a Dusty Plasma Ratchet Rectification and Its Reversal. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 124:075001. [PMID: 32142350 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.075001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2018] [Revised: 12/18/2019] [Accepted: 01/27/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The naturally persistent flow of hundreds of dust particles is experimentally achieved in a dusty plasma system with the asymmetric sawteeth of gears on the electrode. It is also demonstrated that the direction of the dust particle flow can be controlled by changing the plasma conditions of the gas pressure or the plasma power. Numerical simulations of dust particles with the ion drag inside the asymmetric sawteeth verify the experimental observations of the flow rectification of dust particles. Both experiments and simulations suggest that the asymmetric potential and the collective effect are the two keys in this dusty plasma ratchet. With the nonequilibrium ion drag, the dust flow along the asymmetric orientation of this electric potential of the ratchet can be reversed by changing the balance height of dust particles using different plasma conditions.
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- Ya-Feng He
- Hebei Key Laboratory of Optic-electronic Information Materials, College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory of Quantum Engineering and Quantum Materials, SPTE, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Hebei Key Laboratory of Optic-electronic Information Materials, College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
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- Hebei Key Laboratory of Optic-electronic Information Materials, College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
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- Hebei Key Laboratory of Optic-electronic Information Materials, College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
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- Hebei Key Laboratory of Optic-electronic Information Materials, College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
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- Hebei Key Laboratory of Optic-electronic Information Materials, College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
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- Center for Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Interdisciplinary Research, School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
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Wieben F, Block D. Entropy Measurement in Strongly Coupled Complex Plasmas. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 123:225001. [PMID: 31868420 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.123.225001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2019] [Revised: 10/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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The change in entropy of a system that is transferred between two states at different temperatures is measured in a two-dimensional plasma crystal experiment. One- and especially two-component dust clusters are confined in the plasma sheath and heated to different temperatures using laser manipulation. We find that entropies obtained from the phase space yield consistent results for, i.e., the heat capacity which shows excellent agreement with the Dulong-Petit law. The implications for the validity of basic thermodynamical principles in finite size complex (dusty) plasmas are discussed.
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- Frank Wieben
- IEAP, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, D-24098 Kiel, Germany
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- IEAP, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, D-24098 Kiel, Germany
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Yakovlev EV, Kryuchkov NP, Ovcharov PV, Pitiot K, Sapelkin AV, Yurchenko SO. Defect-governed double-step activation and directed flame fronts. Phys Rev E 2019; 100:023203. [PMID: 31574655 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.100.023203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Defects play a crucial role in physics of solids, affecting their mechanical, electromagnetic, and chemical properties. However, influence of thermal defects on wave propagation in exothermic reactions (flame fronts) still remains poorly understood at the molecular level. Here, we show that thermal behavior of the defects exhibits essential features of double-step exothermic reactions with preequilibrium. We use experiments with monolayer complex (dusty) plasma and find that it can show a double-step activation thermal behavior, similar to chemically reactive media. Furthermore, we demonstrate capabilities to control flame fronts using defects and the different dynamic regimes of the thermal defects in complex (dusty) plasmas, from a nonactivated one to being sound and self-activated (like in active soft matter). The results suggest that a range of challenging phenomena at the forefront of modern science (e.g., defect activation, flame front dynamics, reaction waves, etc.) can now be experimentally interrogated on a microscopic scale.
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- Egor V Yakovlev
- Physics Department, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia.,Institute for High Pressure Physics RAS, Kaluzhskoe shosse 14, Troitsk, 108840 Moscow, Russia
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- Physics Department, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia.,Institute for High Pressure Physics RAS, Kaluzhskoe shosse 14, Troitsk, 108840 Moscow, Russia
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- Physics Department, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia
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- Physics Department, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Physics, Queen Mary University of London, E14NS London, England
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- Physics Department, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia.,Institute for High Pressure Physics RAS, Kaluzhskoe shosse 14, Troitsk, 108840 Moscow, Russia
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Yakovlev EV, Chaudhuri M, Kryuchkov NP, Ovcharov PV, Sapelkin AV, Yurchenko SO. Experimental validation of interpolation method for pair correlations in model crystals. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:114502. [PMID: 31542035 DOI: 10.1063/1.5116176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Accurate analysis of pair correlations in condensed matter allows us to establish relations between structures and thermodynamic properties and, thus, is of high importance for a wide range of systems, from solids to colloidal suspensions. Recently, the interpolation method (IM) that describes satisfactorily the shape of pair correlation peaks at short and at long distances has been elaborated theoretically and using molecular dynamics simulations, but it has not been verified experimentally as yet. Here, we test the IM by particle-resolved studies with colloidal suspensions and with complex (dusty) plasmas and demonstrate that, owing to its high accuracy, the IM can be used to experimentally measure parameters that describe interaction between particles in these systems. We used three- and two-dimensional colloidal crystals and monolayer complex (dusty) plasma crystals to explore suitability of the IM in systems with soft to hard-sphere-like repulsion between particles. In addition to the systems with pairwise interactions, if many-body interactions can be mapped to the pairwise ones with some effective (e.g., density-dependent) parameters, the IM could be used to obtain these parameters. The results reliably show that the IM can be effectively used for analysis of pair correlations and interactions in a wide variety of systems and therefore is of broad interest in condensed matter, complex plasma, chemical physics, physical chemistry, materials science, and soft matter.
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- Egor V Yakovlev
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia
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- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia
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- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London E14NS, United Kingdom
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- Bauman Moscow State Technical University, 2nd Baumanskaya Street 5, 105005 Moscow, Russia
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Image Registration with Particles, Examplified with the Complex Plasma Laboratory PK-4 on Board the International Space Station. J Imaging 2019; 5:jimaging5030039. [PMID: 34460467 PMCID: PMC8320918 DOI: 10.3390/jimaging5030039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2019] [Revised: 02/26/2019] [Accepted: 03/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Often, in complex plasmas and beyond, images of particles are recorded with a side-by-side camera setup. These images ideally need to be joined to create a large combined image. This is, for instance, the case in the PK-4 Laboratory on board the International Space Station (the next generation of complex plasma laboratories in space). It enables observations of microparticles embedded in an elongated low temperature DC plasma tube. The microparticles acquire charges from the surrounding plasma and interact strongly with each other. A sheet of laser light illuminates the microparticles, and two cameras record the motion of the microparticles inside this laser sheet. The fields of view of these cameras slightly overlap. In this article, we present two methods to combine the associated image pairs into one image, namely the SimpleElastix toolkit based on comparing the mutual information and a method based on detecting the particle positions. We found that the method based on particle positions performs slightly better than that based on the mutual information, and conclude with recommendations for other researchers wanting to solve a related problem.
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Identification of the Interface in a Binary Complex Plasma Using Machine Learning. J Imaging 2019; 5:jimaging5030036. [PMID: 34460464 PMCID: PMC8320913 DOI: 10.3390/jimaging5030036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2019] [Revised: 02/26/2019] [Accepted: 03/06/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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A binary complex plasma consists of two different types of dust particles in an ionized gas. Due to the spinodal decomposition and force imbalance, particles of different masses and diameters are typically phase separated, resulting in an interface. Both external excitation and internal instability may cause the interface to move with time. Support vector machine (SVM) is a supervised machine learning method that can be very effective for multi-class classification. We applied an SVM classification method based on image brightness to locate the interface in a binary complex plasma. Taking the scaled mean and variance as features, three areas, namely small particles, big particles and plasma without dust particles, were distinguished, leading to the identification of the interface between small and big particles.
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Meyer JK, Laut I, Zhdanov SK, Nosenko V, Thomas HM. Coupling of Noncrossing Wave Modes in a Two-Dimensional Plasma Crystal. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 119:255001. [PMID: 29303297 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.255001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We report an experimental observation of the coupling of the transverse vertical and longitudinal in-plane dust-lattice wave modes in a two-dimensional complex plasma crystal in the absence of mode crossing. A new large-diameter rf plasma chamber was used to suspend the plasma crystal. The observations are confirmed with molecular dynamics simulations. The coupling manifests itself in traces of the transverse vertical mode appearing in the measured longitudinal spectra and vice versa. We calculate the expected ratio of the trace to the principal mode with a theoretical analysis of the modes in a crystal with finite temperature and find good agreement with the experiment and simulations.
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- J K Meyer
- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), 82234 Weßling, Germany
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- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), 82234 Weßling, Germany
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- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), 82234 Weßling, Germany
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- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), 82234 Weßling, Germany
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- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), 82234 Weßling, Germany
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Laut I, Räth C, Zhdanov SK, Nosenko V, Morfill GE, Thomas HM. Wake-Mediated Propulsion of an Upstream Particle in Two-Dimensional Plasma Crystals. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 118:075002. [PMID: 28256868 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.075002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The wake-mediated propulsion of an "extra" particle in a channel of two neighboring rows of a two-dimensional plasma crystal, observed experimentally by Du et al. [Phys. Rev. E 89, 021101(R) (2014)PRESCM1539-375510.1103/PhysRevE.89.021101], is explained in simulations and theory. We use the simple model of a pointlike ion wake charge to reproduce this intriguing effect in simulations, allowing for a detailed investigation and a deeper understanding of the underlying dynamics. We show that the nonreciprocity of the particle interaction, owing to the wake charges, is responsible for a broken symmetry of the channel that enables a persistent self-propelled motion of the extra particle. We find good agreement of the terminal extra-particle velocity with our theoretical considerations and with experiments.
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- I Laut
- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), 82234 Weßling, Germany
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- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), 82234 Weßling, Germany
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- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), 82234 Weßling, Germany
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- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), 82234 Weßling, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, 85741 Garching, Germany
- BMSTU Centre for Plasma Science and Technology, Moscow 105005, Russia
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- Institut für Materialphysik im Weltraum, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), 82234 Weßling, Germany
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Böbel A, Räth C. Kinetics of fluid demixing in complex plasmas: Domain growth analysis using Minkowski tensors. Phys Rev E 2016; 94:013201. [PMID: 27575224 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.94.013201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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A molecular dynamics simulation of the demixing process of a binary complex plasma is analyzed and the role of distinct interaction potentials is discussed by using morphological Minkowski tensor analysis of the minority phase domain growth in a demixing simulated binary complex plasma. These Minkowski tensor methods are compared with previous results that utilized a power spectrum method based on the time-dependent average structure factor. It is shown that the Minkowski tensor methods are superior to the previously used power-spectrum method in the sense of higher sensitivity to changes in domain size. By analysis of the slope of the temporal evolution of Minkowski tensor measures, qualitative differences between the case of particle interaction with a single length scale compared to particle interactions with two different length scales (dominating long-range interaction) are revealed. After proper scaling the graphs for the two length scale scenarios coincide, pointing toward universal behavior. The qualitative difference in demixing scenarios is evidenced by distinct demixing behavior: in the long-range dominated cases demixing occurs in two stages. At first, neighboring particles agglomerate, then domains start to merge in cascades. However, in the case of only one interaction length scale only agglomeration but no merging of domains can be observed. Thus, Minkowski tensor analysis is likely to become a useful tool for further investigation of this (and other) demixing processes. It is capable to reveal (nonlinear) local topological properties, probing deeper than (linear) global power-spectrum analysis, however, still providing easily interpretable results founded on a solid mathematical framework.
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- A Böbel
- Forschungsgruppe Komplexe Plasmen, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Argelsrieder Feld 1a, 82234 Wessling, Germany
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- Forschungsgruppe Komplexe Plasmen, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Argelsrieder Feld 1a, 82234 Wessling, Germany
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