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A comparative study between effects of shadowing potential and ODS on Coulomb crystal formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2010

SWATI BARUAH  and
NILAKSHI DAS
SWATI BARUAH
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Tezpur University, Tezpur-784 028, Assam, India (swati@tezu.ernet.in)
NILAKSHI DAS
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Tezpur University, Tezpur-784 028, Assam, India (swati@tezu.ernet.in)
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Abstract

In dusty plasma, the overlapping Debye spheres around dust grains produce an attractive force. Shadowing force is exerted between neighboring particles because of mutual distortion of ion or neutral flux to the particles. A comparative study has been made on the role of these two forces on 2D structure of dusty system. Radial distribution function for the particles is a comparative study between the effect of the coupled Yukawa-shadowing potential and the coupled Yukawa-Overlapping Debye Sphere (ODS) potential on 2D dust crystal formation, which has been performed by using molecular dynamics simulation. The structure of the system is investigated by calculating the radial distribution function (g(r)) for different values of Γ, κ and dust number densities nd. It is seen from our study that the Coulomb coupling parameter does not have significant effect on both ODS and shadowing forces. The attractive shadowing force is more dominant for grains with large screening parameter. However, the ODS force becomes dominant with the increasing value of the dust number density. The results for the Yukawa-Shadowing and the ODS potential are also compared with experimental results and a close agreement is obtained for attractive shadowing force.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 77 , Issue 4 , August 2011 , pp. 547 - 557
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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