1. Oblique interactions of dust density waves
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Yang-Fang Li, Zhehui Wang, Lujing Hou, Ke Jiang, De-Jin Wu, Hubertus M. Thomas, Gregor E. Morfill, Giuseppe Bertin, Franca De Luca, Giuseppe Lodato, Roberto Pozzoli, and Massimiliano Romé
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Coupling ,Physics ,Dusty plasma ,Physics::Plasma Physics ,Physics::Space Physics ,Perpendicular ,Oblique case ,Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Plasma ,Landau quantization ,Atomic physics ,Plasma oscillation ,Excitation - Abstract
Self‐excited dust density waves (DDWs) are studied in a striped electrode device. In addition to the usual perpendicularly (with respect to the electrode) propagating DDWs, which have been frequently observed in dusty plasma experiments on the ground, a low‐frequency oblique mode is also observed. This low‐frequency oblique DDW has a frequency much lower than the dust plasma frequency and its spontaneous excitation is observed even with a very low dust density. It is found that the low‐frequency oblique mode can exist either separately or together with the usual perpendicular mode. In the latter case, a new mode arises as a result of the interactions between the perpendicular and the oblique modes. The experiments show that these three modes satisfy the wave coupling conditions in both the frequencies and the wave‐vectors.
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- 2010