Anisotropic confinement effects in a two-dimensional plasma crystal.

@article{Laut2016AnisotropicCE,
  title={Anisotropic confinement effects in a two-dimensional plasma crystal.},
  author={I. L. Laut and Sergey K. Zhdanov and Christoph R{\"a}th and Hubertus M. Thomas and Gregor Eugen Morfill},
  journal={Physical review. E},
  year={2016},
  volume={93 1},
  pages={
          013204
        }
}
The spectral asymmetry of the wave-energy distribution of dust particles during mode-coupling-induced melting, observed for the first time in plasma crystals by Couëdel et al. [Phys. Rev. E 89, 053108 (2014)PLEEE81539-375510.1103/PhysRevE.89.053108], is studied theoretically and by molecular-dynamics simulations. It is shown that an anisotropy of the well confining the microparticles selects the directions of preferred particle motion. The observed differences in intensity of waves of opposed… 
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