Effect of strong wakes on waves in two-dimensional plasma crystals

Abstract

We study effects of the particle-wake interactions on the dispersion and polarization of dust lattice wave modes in two-dimensional plasma crystals. Most notably, the wake-induced coupling between the modes causes the branches to "attract" each other, and their polarizations become elliptical. Upon the mode hybridization the major axes of the ellipses (remaining mutually orthogonal) rotate by $45^{\circ }$. To demonstrate importance of the obtained results for experiments, we plot spectral densities of the longitudinal and transverse waves revealing distinct fingerprints of the mixed polarization. Furthermore, we show that at strong coupling the hybrid mode is significantly shifted towards smaller wave numbers, away from the border of the first Brillouin zone (where the hybrid mode is localized for a weak coupling).

10 pages, 6 figures

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