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Volume 123, Number 3, August 2018
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Article Number | 35001 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Physics of Gases, Plasmas and Electric Discharges | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/123/35001 | |
Published online | 10 September 2018 |
Structure and dynamics of a glass-forming binary complex plasma with non-reciprocal interaction
1 College of Science, Donghua University - 201620 Shanghai, PRC
2 Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics - 85748 Garching, Germany
3 Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
4 School of Physics and Astronomy & Institute of Natural Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 200240 Shanghai, PRC
5 Member of Magnetic Confinement Fusion Research Centre, Ministry of Education - PRC
Received: 16 May 2018
Accepted: 14 August 2018
In this letter, a simulation study on the structural and dynamical properties of a quasi-two-dimensional (q2D) binary complex plasma with Langevin dynamics is presented. The effect of a non-reciprocal interaction on the structure is investigated by comparing systems with pure Yukawa and with point-wake Yukawa interactions. The long-time alpha-relaxation for the latter system is revealed by plotting and analyzing the intermediate scattering function. The results clearly indicate that a q2D binary complex plasma is a suitable model system to study the dynamics of a glass former. The non-reciprocity of the interactions shifts the glass formation significantly but leads to the same qualitative signatures as in the reciprocal case.
PACS: 52.27.Lw – Dusty or complex plasmas; plasma crystals
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