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Clustering of ions at atomic dimensions in quantum plasmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2012

PADMA K. SHUKLA  and
BENGT ELIASSON
PADMA K. SHUKLA
Affiliation:
International Centre for Advanced Studies in Physical Sciences & Institute for Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics & Astronomy, Ruhr-University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany (profshukla@yahoo.de) Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering & Center for Energy Research, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
BENGT ELIASSON
Affiliation:
International Centre for Advanced Studies in Physical Sciences & Institute for Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics & Astronomy, Ruhr-University Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany (profshukla@yahoo.de)
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Abstract

By means of particle simulations of the equations of motion for ions interacting among themselves under the influence of newly discovered Shukla–Eliasson attractive force (SEAF) in a dense quantum plasma, we demonstrate that the SEAF can bring ions closer at atomic dimensions. We present simulation results of the dynamics of an ensemble of ions in the presence of the SEAF without and with confining external potentials and collisions between ions and degenerate electrons. Our particle simulations reveal that under the SEAF, ions attract each other, come closer, and form ionic clusters in the bath of degenerate electrons that shield ions. Furthermore, an external confining potential produces robust ion clusters that can have cigar- and ball-like shapes, which remain stable when the confining potential is removed. The stability of ion clusters is discussed. Our results may have applications to solid density plasmas (density exceeding 1023 per cm3), where the electrons will be degenerate and quantum forces due to the electron recoil effect caused by the overlapping of electron wave functions and electron tunneling through the Bohm potential, electron-exchange and electron-exchange and electron correlations associated with electron-1/2 spin effect, and the quantum statistical pressure of the degenerate electrons play a decisive role.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 79 , Special Issue 4: Advanced Plasma Concepts , August 2013 , pp. 359 - 366
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