Localized excitations of charged dust grains in dusty plasma lattices

Ioannis Kourakis; Padma Kant Shukla; Vassileios Basios

Localized excitations of charged dust grains in dusty plasma lattices

Ioannis Kourakis
, Padma Kant Shukla
, Vassileios Basios

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Abstract

The nonlinear aspects of charged dust grain motion in a one-dimensional dusty plasma (DP) monolayer are discussed. Both horizontal (longitudinal, acoustic mode) and vertical (transverse, optic mode) displacements are considered, and various types of localized excitations are reviewed, in a continuum approximation. Dust crystals are shown to support nonlinear kink-shaped supersonic longitudinal solitary excitations, as well as modulated envelope (either longitudinal or transverse) localized modes. The possibility for Discrete Breather (DB-) type excitations (Intrinsic Localized Modes, ILMs) to occur is investigated, from first principles. These highly localized excitations owe their existence to lattice discreteness, in combination with the interaction and/or
substrate (sheath) potential nonlinearity. This possibility may open new directions in DP- related research. The relation to previous results on atomic chains as well as to experimental results on strongly-coupled dust layers in gas discharge plasmas is discussed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	New Vistas in Dusty Plasmas
Subtitle of host publication	Fourth International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Orleans, France, 13-17 June 2005
Publisher	Springer
Pages	534-537
Number of pages	4
Volume	799
ISBN (Print)	978-0-7354-0287-4
Publication status	Published - 31 Oct 2005
Event	4th International Conference on Physics of Dusty Plasmas - Orleans, France Duration: 01 Jun 2005 → 01 Jun 2005

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Name	AIP Conference Proceedings
Publisher	Springer
Volume	799

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Conference	4th International Conference on Physics of Dusty Plasmas
Country/Territory	France
City	Orleans
Period	01/06/2005 → 01/06/2005

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General Physics and Astronomy

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Kourakis, I, Shukla, PK & Basios, V 2005, Localized excitations of charged dust grains in dusty plasma lattices. in New Vistas in Dusty Plasmas: Fourth International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Orleans, France, 13-17 June 2005. vol. 799, AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 799, Springer, pp. 534-537, 4th International Conference on Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Orleans, France, 01/06/2005.

Localized excitations of charged dust grains in dusty plasma lattices. / Kourakis, Ioannis; Shukla, Padma Kant; Basios, Vassileios.
New Vistas in Dusty Plasmas: Fourth International Conference on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Orleans, France, 13-17 June 2005. Vol. 799 Springer, 2005. p. 534-537 (AIP Conference Proceedings; Vol. 799).

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