Sound Waves in Complex (Dusty) Plasmas

Aamir Shahzad, Muhammad Asif Shakoori and Sajid Bashir

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Abstract: Wave properties of strongly coupled complex dusty (SCCD) plasmas evaluated using the equilibrium molecular dynamics (EMD) simulation technique. In this work, the plasma normalized longitudinal current correlation function CL(k,t) and transverse current CT(k,t) are calculated for a large range of plasma parameters of Coulomb coupling parameter (?) and screening strength (?) with varying wave's number (k). In EMD simulations, we have analysed different modes of wave propagation in SCCD plasmas with increasing and decreasing sequences of different combinations of plasmas parameters (?, ?) at varying simulation time step (?t). Our simulation results show that the fluctuation of waves increases with an increase of ? and decreases with increasing ?. Additional test shows that the presented results for waves are slightly dependent on number of particles (N). The amplitude and time period of CL(k,t) and CT(k,t) also depend on different influenced parameters of ?, ?, k and N. The new results obtained through the presented EMD method for complex dusty plasma discussed and compared with earlier simulation results based on different numerical methods. It is demonstrated that the presented model is the best tool for estimating the behaviour of waves in strongly coupled complex system (dusty plasmas) over a suitable range of parameters.

Keywords: wave properties; plasma parameter; current correlation function; dynamic structure factor; strongly coupled complex (dusty) plasmas; equilibrium molecular dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.71203

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