Planar and non-planar dust ion-acoustic solitary waves in a quantum dusty electronegative plasma

Abstract

A theoretical investigation has been made on nonlinear propagation of planar and non-planar solitary waves in a quantum dusty electronegative plasma, whose constituents are quantum electrons, positive ions, negative ions, and arbitrarily charged stationary dust. The reductive perturbation method has been used to derive the Korteweg-de Vries and modified Korteweg-de Vries equations for studying the basic features of solitary waves, which are associated with both positive and negative ion dynamics. The effects of quantum parameter (H), positive and negative ion mass ratio (μin), as well as dust and positive ion number densities (β) on the basic features (polarity, height, and width) of planar solitary waves have been studied. It has been also found that the properties of dust ion-acoustic solitary waves in non-planar cylindrical or spherical geometry differ from those in planar one-dimensional geometry. The implications of our results in space (viz., interstellar compact objects like neutron stars) and laboratory experiments (e.g., intense laser solid density plasma experiments) have been briefly discussed.