Criteria of phase transitions in a complex plasma.
New empirical rules for different phase transitions (including the melting of cubic lattices and the transitions between body-centered-cubic and face-centered-cubic structures) are proposed. The arrangements of charged macroparticles in a complex "dusty" plasma are numerically investigated for the conditions of laboratory experiments on weakly ionized gas discharges.
Vaulina
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Institute of High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, 13/19 Izhorskaya Street, Moscow 127412, Russia.
Vladimirov
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Petrov
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Fortov
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