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Phase Transitions in Two-Dimensional Complex Plasmas

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An ionized gas containing ions, electrons and neutral atoms is called a plasma if it meets the conditions quasineutrality and collective behavior. The quasineutrality exists for distances much larger than the Debye length at which the potential caused by a charged particle has dropped to \(1/e\) due to the shielding by oppositely charged species. Collective behavior arises when one charged particle interacts with many other charged particles through the Coulomb force. This means much more than one particle has to remain within a Debye sphere. The motion of the constituents of a plasma should further be caused by electromagnetic interaction rather than direct particle collisions, requiring that the frequency of such collisions is much smaller than the plasma frequency—the frequency of typical plasma oscillations.

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