Influence of a polarization force on dust acoustic waves.
The effect of the polarization force acting on the grains in a nonuniform plasma background on the propagation of low-frequency waves in complex (dusty) plasmas is analyzed. It is shown that polarization interaction leads to a renormalization (decrease) of the dust acoustic phase velocity. The effect becomes more pronounced as the grain size increases. Finally, there is a critical grain size above which the dust acoustic waves cannot propagate, but aperiodic (nonpropagating) perturbations form instead.
Khrapak
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Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, D-85741 Garching, Germany.
Ivlev
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Yaroshenko
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Morfill
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