Ion-Acoustic Surface Waves in a Complex Plasma with Lorentzian Distribution

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Abstract

The electrostatic modes of dusty ion-acoustic surface waves propagating on the interface between a vacuum and a complex (dusty) plasma are kinetically investigated by using the dispersion relation based on the Vlasov-Maxwell equations. The complex plasma consists of the electron and ion plasmas with Lorentzian distributions and dust particles in the form of $f_{d}$ = $n_{d}$\textit{$\delta $}($r-r_{d})$ where $r_{d}$ indicates the location of dust particles. In the long wavelength limit, the ion-acoustic surface wave in a complex Lorentzian plasma is found to be slower as the non-thermality of electron and ion plasmas increases when the phase velocity is in the range of $v_{i}<<\omega $/$k_{x}<

*This work was supported in part by the research fund of Hanyang University (HY-2006-N) and in part by the NRL (National Research Laboratory) Program of KOSEF (Korea Science and Engineering Foundation) under the Korea Ministry of Science and Technology

Authors

  • Myoung-Jae Lee

    • Electric Probe Applications Laboratory (ePAL), Hanyang University
    • BK21 Program Division of Advanced Research and Education in Physics, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Korea
  • Guen-Sig Choi

  • Kyu-Sun Chung

    • Electric Probe Applications Laboratory (ePAL), Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Korea