Evolution of shielding cloud under oscillatory external forcing in strongly coupled ultracold neutral plasma

M Yadav and AS Katariya and A Sharma and A Das, PHYSICA D-NONLINEAR PHENOMENA, 469, 134326 (2024).

DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2024.134326

This paper investigates the dynamics of crystalline clusters observed in Molecular Dynamics (MD) studies conducted earlier (Yadav et al., 2023) for ultra-cold neutral plasmas. An external oscillatory forcing is applied for this purpose, and the evolution is tracked with the help of MD simulations using the open-source LAMMPS software. Interesting observations relating to cluster dynamics are presented. The formation of a pentagonal arrangement of particles is also reported.

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