Magnetic field dependence of the normal mode spectrum of a planar complex plasma cluster

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 32, Issue 2 II, 2004, Pages 569-572

  Kong, Minghui ^a   Ferreira, Wandemberg Paiva ^a,b   Partoens, Bart ^a   Peeters, François M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PLASMAS; COULOMB CLUSTERS; NORMAL MODE SPECTRUM;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

PLASMAS;

EID: 4344704354     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2004.826084     Document Type: Article

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