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View SchemaWeakly nonlinear vertical dust grain oscillations in dusty plasma crystals in the presence of a magnetic field
| Authors | Ioannis Kourakis, Padma Kant Shukla |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0404096 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0404096 |
| DOI | 10.1063/1.1763577 |
Abstract
The weakly nonlinear regime of transverse paramagnetic dust grain oscillations in dusty (complex) plasma crystals is discussed. The nonlinearity, which is related to the sheath electric/magnetic field(s) and to the inter--grain (electrostatic/magnetic dipole) interactions, is shown to lead to the generation of phase harmonics and, in the case of propagating transverse dust-lattice modes, to the modulational instability of the carrier wave due to self--interaction. The stability profile depends explicitly on the form of the electric and magnetic fields in the plasma sheath. The long term evolution of the modulated wave packet, which is described by a nonlinear Schr\"odinger--type equation (NLSE), may lead to propagating localized envelope structures whose exact forms are presented and discussed. Explicit suggestions for experimental investigations are put forward.
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