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| VOLUME 82 | ISSUE 12 |
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| Wake-induced symmetry-breaking of dust particle arrangements in a complex plasma
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A. A. Samarian, S. V. Vladimirov, B. W. James
School of Physics, The University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
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PACS: 52.27.Lw, 52.35.Py, 52.80.Pi
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Abstract
A symmetry-breaking disruption occurs in a system of two dust particles with the decrease of the particle separation. This disruption is attributed to the formation of the common ion wake in the system. In the experiment, the particles levitate in the sheath of a radio-frequency (rf) discharge at low gas pressures ( mTorr) and their separation is changed by the laser manipulation. The experiment is complemented by molecular dynamics (MD) numerical simulations. The experimental and simulation data agree that the disruption condition corresponds to the common ion wake formation at the interparticle distances less than the electron Debye length.
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