期刊
REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS
卷 81, 期 4, 页码 1353-1404出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.81.1353
关键词
dusty plasmas; plasma collision processes; plasma nonlinear waves; plasma temperature
资金
- DLR/BMWi [50WP0203]
Complex (dusty) plasmas are composed of a weakly ionized gas and charged microparticles and represent the plasma state of soft matter. Complex plasmas have several remarkable features: Dynamical time scales associated with microparticles are stretched to tens of milliseconds, yet the microparticles themselves can be easily visualized individually. Furthermore, since the background gas is dilute, the particle dynamics in strongly coupled complex plasmas is virtually undamped, which provides a direct analogy to regular liquids and solids in terms of the atomistic dynamics. Finally, complex plasmas can be easily manipulated in different ways-also at the level of individual particles. Altogether, this gives us a unique opportunity to go beyond the limits of continuous media and study-at the kinetic level-various generic processes occurring in liquids or solids, in regimes ranging from the onset of cooperative phenomena to large strongly coupled systems. In the first part of the review some of the basic and new physics are highlighted which complex plasmas enable us to study, and in the second (major) part strong coupling phenomena in an interdisciplinary context are examined. The connections with complex fluids are emphasized and a number of generic liquid and solid-state issues are addressed. In summary, application oriented research is discussed.
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