Non-neutral Plasmas
A non-neutral plasma is a plasma whose net charge creates an electric field large enough to play an important or even dominant role in the plasma dynamics.R. C. Davidson, "Physics of Non-neutral Plasmas", (Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, CA, 1990) The simplest non-neutral plasmas are plasmas consisting of a single charge species. Examples of single species non-neutral plasmas that have been created in laboratory experiments arplasmas consisting entirely of electrons 1 interactions between particles are important and the plasma behaves more like a liquid, or even a crystal if \Gamma is sufficiently large. In fact, computer simulations and theory have predicted that for an infinite homogeneous plasma the system exhibits a gradual onset of short-range order consistent with a liquid-like state for \Gamma \approx 2 , and there is predicted to be a first-order phase transition to a body-centered-cubic crystal for \Gamma\simeq 175. Experiments have observed this crystalline state in a pure ...
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Plasma (physics)
Plasma ()πλάσμα
, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek English Lexicon'', on Perseus is one of the four fundamental states of matter. It contains a significant portion of charged particles – ions and/or s. The presence of these charged particles is what primarily sets plasma apart from the other fundamental states of matter. It is the most abundant form of ordi ...
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