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Dust-lower-hybrid drift instabilities with dust charge fluctuations in an inhomogeneous dusty magnetoplasma
M Salimullah1, A M Rizwan, M Nambu
1Department of Physics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh. msu@juniv.edu
Abstract:
Effects of a uniform magnetic field, the plasma inhomogeneity, and dust charge fluctuations on low-frequency dust-lower-hybrid drift waves have been investigated. Charging currents of electrons and ions to a spherical dust grain in a nonuniform magnetized dusty plasma have been calculated to study the charge fluctuation induced damping or growth of low-frequency drift waves. It is found that for strongly magnetized electrons and ions, the charge fluctuation damping is reduced significantly from that of an unmagnetized plasma. For sufficiently hot electrons, the drift wave exhibits instability in the absence of dust charge fluctuation damping.
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