Fundamentals of a complex plasma

This project includes fundamental issues related to the complex physics of multi-component systems of charged particles, mathematics of stochastic processes and their distributions and correlations, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, collective excitations, phase transitions and critical phenomena. It aims to obtain insights into the fundamental physics of dynamic self-organization in complex plasmas

Key Publications

S.V. Vladimirov, “Cooperative Behavior of Colloidal Particles in a Complex Plasma”, Physica A 315, No. 1-2 (2002) 222-227

S.V. Vladimirov and K. Ostrikov, “Dynamic Self-organization Phenomena in Complex Ionized Gas Systems: New Paradigms and Technological Aspects”, Physics Reports 393, No. 3-6 (2004) 175-380.

O.S. Vaulina, S.V. Vladimirov, O.F. Petrov, and V.F. Fortov, “Criteria of Phase Transitions in a Complex Plasma”, Physical Review Letters 88, No. 24 (2002) 245002.

M.P. Hertzberg, S.V. Vladimirov, and N.F. Cramer, “Rotational Modes of Oscillation of Rod-like Dust Grains in a Plasma”, Physical Review E 68, No. 2 (2003) 026402.

S.V. Vladimirov, S.A. Maiorov, and O. Ishihara, “Molecular Dynamic Simulation of Plasma Flow around Two Stationary Dust Grains”, Physics of Plasmas 10 (2003) 3867-3873.

V.N. Tsytovich, S.V. Vladimirov, and G.E. Morfill, “Theory of Dust and Dust-void Structures in the Presence of the Ion Diffusion”, Physical Review E 70, No. 12 (2004) 066408.

Figure. MD smulation of a dust "condensation" in a plasma.

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