Hostname: page-component-7c8c6479df-hgkh8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-03-28T08:18:00.126Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Low-frequency electrostatic wave in a metallic electron-hole-ion plasma with nanoparticles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2009

P. K. SHUKLA
Affiliation:
Institut für Theoretische Physik IV, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany (ps@tp4.rub.de)
G. E. MORFILL
Affiliation:
Max-Planck Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, D-85740 Garching, Germany
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

We investigate the dispersion property of a low-frequency electrostatic wave in a dense metallic electron-hole-ion plasma with nanoparticles. The latter are charged due to the field emission, and hence the metallic nanoparticles/nanotubes can be regarded as charged dust rods surrounded by degenerate electrons and holes, and non-degenerate ions. By using a quantum hydrodynamic model for the electrons and holes, we obtain the electron and hole number density perturbations, while the ion and dust rod number density perturbations follow the classical expressions. A dispersion relation for the low-frequency electrostatic wave in our multi-species dense metallic plasma is derived and analyzed. The possibility of exciting non-thermal electrostatic waves is also discussed.

Type
Letter to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

References

[1]Iijima, S. 1991 Nature 354, 56.Google Scholar
[2]Ajayan, P. M., Iijima, S. and Ichihashi, T. 1992 Phys. Rev. B. 47, 6859.Google Scholar
[3]Pichler, T., Knupfer, M., Golden, M. S., Fink, J., Rinzler, A. and Smalley, R. E. 1998 Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4729.Google Scholar
[4]Sato, O., Tanaka, Y., Kobayashi, K. and Hasegawa, A. 1993 Phys. Rev. B 48, 1947.Google Scholar
[5]Lin, M. F. and Shung, K. W.-K. 1993 Phys. Rev. B 47, 6617.Google Scholar
[6]Lin, M. F., Chuu, D. S., Huang, C. S., Lin, Y. K. and Shung, K. W.-K. 1996 Phys. Rev. B 53, 15493.Google Scholar
[7]Jiang, X. 1996 Phys. Rev. B 54, 1387.Google Scholar
[8]Mowbrey, D. J., Miskovic, Z. L., Goodman, F. O. and Wang, Y. N. 2004 Phys. Rev. B 70, 195418.Google Scholar
[9]Moradi, A. and Khosravi, J. 2007 Phys. Lett. A 371, 1.Google Scholar
[10]Wei, L. and Wang, Y. N. 2007 Phys. Rev. B 75, 193407.Google Scholar
[11]Guo, P. S., Chen, T., Chn, Y. W., Zhang, Z. L., Feng, T., Wang, L. L., Lin, L. F., Sun, Z. and Zhang, Z. H. 2008 Solid-State Electron. 52, 877.Google Scholar
[12]Sodha, M. S. and Dixit, A. 2008 J. Appl. Phys. 104, 064909.Google Scholar
[13]Rao, N. N., Shukla, P. K. and Yu, M. Y. 1990 Planet. Space Sci. 38, 543.Google Scholar
[14]Shukla, P. K. and Silin, V. P. 1992 Phys. Scripta 45, 508.Google Scholar
[15]Shukla, P. K., Yu, M. Y. and Bharuthram, R. 1991 J. Geophys. Res. 96, 21343.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[16]Shukla, P. K. and Rosenberg, M. 1999 Phys. Plasmas 6, 1038.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[17]Haas, F., Manfredi, G. and Feix, M. 2000 Phys. Rev. E 62, 2763.Google Scholar
[18]Manfredi, G. 2005 Fields Inst. Commun. 46, 263.Google Scholar
[19]Marklund, M., Brodin, G., Stenflo, L., Liu, C. S. 2008 Europhys. Lett. 84, 17006.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[20]Gardner, C. L. and Ringhofer, C. 1996 Phys. Rev. E 53, 157.Google Scholar
[21]Shukla, P. K. and Eliasson, B. 2006 Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 245001.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[22]Shukla, P. K. and Eliasson, B. 2007 Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 096401.Google Scholar
[23]Shaikh, D. and Shukla, P. K. 2007 Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 125002.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[24]Shukla, P. K. 2006 Phys. Lett. A 352, 242.Google Scholar
[25]Shukla, P. K. 2009 Phys. Lett. A 373, 256.Google Scholar
[26]Shukla, P. K. 2009 Nature Phys. 5, 92.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[27]Shukla, P. K. and Mamun, A. A. 2002 Introduction to Dusty Plasma Physics Institute of Physics, Bristol.Google Scholar
[28]Jackson, J. D. 1975 Classical Electrodynamics. New York: Wiley.Google Scholar
[29]Shukla, P. K. and Mamun, A. A. 2003 New J. Phys. 5, 17.Google Scholar
[30]Shukla, P. K. and Eliasson, B. 2009 Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 25.Google Scholar
[31]Markovich, P. A., Ringhofer, C. A. and Schmeiser, C. 1990 Semiconductor Equations. New York: Springer.Google Scholar
[32]Crouseilles, N., Hervieux, P. A. and Manfredi, G. 2008 Phys. Rev. B 78, 155412.Google Scholar