Abstract
A dusty plasma crystalline configuration consisting of charged dust grains of alternating charge sign (⋯+-+-+⋯) and mass is considered. Both charge and mass of each dust species are taken to be constant. Considering the equations of longitudinal motion, a dispersion relation for linear longitudinal vibrations is derived from first principles and then analyzed. Two harmonic modes are obtained, namely, an acoustic mode and an inverse-dispersive optic-like one. The nonlinear aspects of acoustic longitudinal dust grain motion are addressed via a generalized Boussinesq (and, alternatively, a generalized Korteweg-de Vries) description.
| Original language | British English |
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| Article number | 112104 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-6 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Physics of Plasmas |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 11 |
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| State | Published - 2005 |