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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 89, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.085004
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The radiation of elastic waves from a localized source is observed experimentally in a two-dimensional plasma crystal. An initial shear stress applied by a laser forms a small dipole source. The emerging complex wave pattern is shown to consist of outgoing compressional and shear wave pulses. Subsequent structures are identified as inward-going waves due to the finite size of the source region, which reappear on the opposite side. The compressional wave forms a trailing wave train due to strong dispersion, while the nondispersive shear wave evolves into a vortex-antivortex pair on either side. The experiments are compared with a molecular-dynamics simulation.
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