Low-Dimensional Structures in Complex Plasmas

This book highlights in a systematic and easy-to-follow way the fundamental physics and experiments on low-dimensional structures in complex plasmas. Main attention is paid to the most frequently observed and/or theoretically fundamental dust structures. A specialized and comprehensive description of the most recent experimental, theoretical, and modeling efforts to understand unique properties of these structures involving the stability, dynamics, and self-organization, as well as phase transitions between different arrangements/symmetries, is given. Special attention is given to physical understanding of the most recent developments in the experiment and theory of low-dimensional structures composed of micrometer-scale dust particles. . First introduction of the fundamental physics and laboratory experiments of low-dimensional complex plasma structures in a systematic manner . Opens up the rapidly emerging and inter-disciplinary field of structures in complex plasmas to interested researchers normally working in different fields. Focus on the physics of micro-meter scale processes in complex plasmas allowing to efficiently understand and affect the structure and basic properties of matter at the fundamental kinetic level. Great details of the basic techniques and methodologies for experimental, analytical, and numerical investigation of the low-dimensional structures that can be used for development of advanced curricula for undergraduate and postgraduate physicists and mathematicians . Conceptually new approaches to the analysis of behaviour and manipulation of complex gas-particle systems, based on advanced physical models of the interaction of dust particles with themselves and their ionised plasma environments . Presents the most important current topics and new paradigms in research on complex plasma systems