Critical fluctuations and anomalous transport in soft Yukawa-Langevin systems
- Space and Plasma Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm (Sweden)
- Max-Planck-Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik, D-85741 Garching (Germany)
- Department of Physics and Technology, University of Tromsoe, N-9037 Tromsoe (Norway)
Simulation of a Langevin-dynamics model demonstrates emergence of critical fluctuations and anomalous grain transport which have been observed in experiments on ''soft'' quasi-two-dimensional dusty plasma clusters. Our model does not contain external drive or plasma interactions that serve to drive the system away from thermodynamic equilibrium. The grains are confined by an external potential, interact via static Yukawa forces, and are subject to stochastic heating and dissipation from neutrals. One remarkable feature is emergence of leptokurtic probability distributions of grain displacements {xi}({tau}) on time scales {tau}<{tau}{sub {delta}}, where {tau}{sub {delta}} is the time at which the standard deviation {sigma}({tau}){identical_to}<{xi}{sup 2}({tau})>{sup 1/2} approaches the mean intergrain distance {delta}. Others are development of humps in the distributions on multiples of {delta}, anomalous Hurst exponents, and transitions from leptokurtic toward Gaussian displacement distributions on time scales {tau}>{tau}{sub {delta}}. The latter is a signature of intermittency, here interpreted as a transition from bursty transport associated with hopping on intermediate time scales to vortical flows on longer time scales. These intermittency features are quantitatively modeled by a single-particle Ito-Langevin stochastic equation with a nonlinear drift term.
- OSTI ID:
- 21294428
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics (Print), Vol. 80, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.046404; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1539-3755
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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