Abstract
In a recent work [Maity et al., Phys. Rev. E 102(2), 023213 (2020)] the equilibrium of a cluster of charged dust particles mutually interacting with screened Coulomb force and radially confined by an externally applied electric field in a two-dimensional configuration was studied. It was shown that the particles arranged themselves on discrete radial rings forming a lattice structure. In some cases with a specific number of particles, no static equilibrium was observed. Instead, angular rotation of particles positioned at various rings was observed. In a two-ringed structure, it was shown that the direction of rotation of the particles positioned in different rings was opposite. The direction of rotation was also observed to change apparently at random time intervals. A detailed characterization of the dynamics of small-sized Yukawa clusters, with a varying number of particles and different strengths of the confining force, has been carried out. The correlation dimension and the largest Lyapunov index for the dynamical state have been evaluated to demonstrate that the dynamics is chaotic. This is interesting considering that the charged microparticles have many applications in a variety of industrial processes.
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