Study of the intergrain interaction potential and associated instability of dust-lattice plasma oscillations in the presence of ion flow

I. Kourakis, P. K. Shukla

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Abstract

A comprehensive study of the Debye-Hückel repulsive and ion wakefield induced attractive potentials around a dust grain is presented, including ion flow. It is found that the modified interaction potential (especially the attractive wakefield force) can cause instability of linear dust oscillations propagating in a dusty plasma crystal composed of dust grains in a horizontal arrangement suspended in the sheath region near a conducting wall (electrode). The dependence of dust lattice modes on the ion flow is studied, revealing instability of dust lattice modes for certain values of the ion flow speed.

Original languageBritish English
Pages (from-to)156-164
Number of pages9
JournalPhysics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
Volume317
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Oct 2003

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