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Bispectral analysis of nonlinear compressional waves in a two-dimensional dusty plasma crystal
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Bispectral analysis of nonlinear compressional waves in a two-dimensional dusty plasma crystal

V Nosenko, J Goree and F Skiff
Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, Vol.73(1 Pt 2), pp.016401-016401
01/2006
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.016401
PMID: 16486282

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Abstract

Bispectral analysis was used to study the nonlinear interaction of compressional waves in a two-dimensional strongly coupled dusty plasma. A monolayer of highly charged polymer microspheres was suspended in a plasma sheath. The microspheres interacted with a Yukawa potential and formed a triangular lattice. Two sinusoidal pump waves with different frequencies were excited in the lattice by pushing the particles with modulated Ar+ laser beams. Coherent nonlinear interaction of the pump waves was shown to be the mechanism of generating waves at the sum, difference, and other combination frequencies. However, coherent nonlinear interaction was ruled out for certain combination frequencies, in particular, for the difference frequency below an excitation-power threshold, as predicted by theory.

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