Buckling of 2D Plasma Crystals with Non-reciprocal Interactions
arXiv:2007.15058 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.102.043204
Abstract
Laboratory realizations of 2D plasma crystals typically involve monodisperse microparticles confined into horizontal monolayers in radio-frequency (rf) plasma sheaths. This gives rise to the so-called plasma wakes beneath the microparticles. The presence of wakes renders the interactions in such systems non-reciprocal, a fact that can lead to a quite different behaviour from the one expected for their reciprocal counterparts. Here we examine the buckling of a hexagonal 2D plasma crystal, occurring as the confinement strength is decreased, taking explicitly into account the non-reciprocity of the system via a well-established point-particle wake model. We observe that for a finite wake charge, the monolayer hexagonal crystal undergoes a transition first to a bilayer hexagonal structure, unrealisable in harmonically confined reciprocal Yukawa systems, and subsequently to a bilayer square structure. Our theoretical results are confirmed by molecular dynamics simulations for experimentally relevant parameters, indicating the potential of their observation in state-of-the-art experiments with 2D complex plasmas.
arXiv comment13 pages, 6 figures
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