Modes of three-dimensional dust crystals in dusty plasmas.
Three-dimensional finite systems of charged dust particles confined to concentric spherical shells in a dusty plasma, so-called "Yukawa balls," have been studied experimentally with respect to their dynamic properties. For that purpose, the three-dimensional thermal Brownian motion of the dust particles around their equilibrium positions was reconstructed with high accuracy. From that the dynamic properties in the form of mode patterns and frequencies are obtained from singular value decomposition and normal mode analysis. The dynamics of the Yukawa balls was found to be dominated by large-scale low-frequency shearlike modes.
Ivanov
Yuriy
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Institut für Physik, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, 17489 Greifswald, Germany.
Melzer
André
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