{
  "id": "1502.06336",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2015-02-23T07:57:07.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-02-23T07:57:07.000Z",
  "title": "Glass transition of charged particles in two-dimensional confinement",
  "authors": [
    "Anoosheh Yazdi",
    "Marco Heinen",
    "Alexei Ivlev",
    "Hartmut Löwen",
    "Matthias Sperl"
  ],
  "comment": "10 pages, 8 figures",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "cond-mat.soft"
  ],
  "abstract": "The glass transition of mesoscopic charged particles in two-dimensional confinement is studied by mode-coupling theory. We consider two types of effective interactions between the particles, corresponding to two different models for the distribution of surrounding ions that are integrated out in coarse-grained descriptions. In the first model, a planar monolayer of charged particles is immersed in an unbounded isotropic bath of ions, giving rise to an isotropically screened Debye-H\\\"uckel- (Yukawa-) type effective interaction. The second, experimentally more relevant system is a monolayer of negatively charged particles that levitate atop a flat horizontal electrode, as frequently encountered in laboratory experiments with complex (dusty) plasmas. A steady plasma current towards the electrode gives rise to an anisotropic effective interaction potential between the particles, with an algebraically long-ranged in-plane decay. In a comprehensive parameter scan that covers the typical range of experimentally accessible plasma conditions, we calculate and compare the mode-coupling predictions for the glass transition in both kinds of systems.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2015-02-23T07:57:07.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "charged particles",
      "glass transition",
      "two-dimensional confinement",
      "steady plasma current",
      "flat horizontal electrode"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 10,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}