Complex plasmas in laboratory and nature

The main aim of this project is to understand, explain, and predict effects associated with the presence of “dust” and observed in the laboratory and nature. It is related to plasma physics, physics of Solar system and planetary physics, space physics and astrophysics, atmospheric and environmental physics, aerosol physics and physics of granular media, hydrodynamics and physics of complex fluids, crystal and soft condensed matter physics.

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Complex plasma laboratory

Key Publications

S.V. Vladimirov, N.F. Cramer and P.V. Shevchenko, “Equilibrium and Oscillations of Grains in the Dust-plasma Crystal”, Physical Review E 60, No. 6 (1999) 7369-7373.

S.V. Vladimirov and N.F. Cramer, “Equilibrium and Levitation of Dust in a Collisional Plasma with Ionization”, Physical Review E 62, No. 2 (2000) 2754-2762.

S.V. Vladimirov and A.A. Samarian, “Stability of Particle Arrangements in a Complex Plasma”, Physical Review E 65, No. 4 (2002) 046416-1-4.

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) 026402/1-8.

S.V. Vladimirov, G.E. Morfill, V.V. Yaroshenko, and N.F. Cramer, “Oscillatory Modes of Magnetized Grains in a Plasma”, Physics of Plasmas 10, No. 7 (2003) 2659-2662.

N.F. Cramer, F. Verheest, and S.V. Vladimirov, “Instabilities of Alfven and Magnetosonic Waves in Dusty Cometary Plasmas with an Ion Ring Beam”, Physics of Plasmas 6, No. 1 (1999) 36-43.

Figure 1. Laboratory dust-plasma crystal

Figure 2. Noctilucent clouds

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