Modulated Dust-Acoustic Wave Packets in an Opposite Polarity Dusty Plasma System

S.Jahan,N.A.Chowdhury, A.Mannan, and A.A.Mamun

Department of Physics, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka-1342, Bangladesh

(Received September 12, 2018; revised manuscript received October 23, 2018)

Abstract The nonlinear propagation of the dust-acoustic bright and dark envelope solitons in an opposite polarity dusty plasma (OPDP)system (composed of non-extensive q-distributed electrons, iso-thermal ions, and positively as well as negatively charged warm dust)has been theoretically investigated.The reductive perturbation method (which is valid for a small, but finite amplitude limit)is employed to derive the nonlinear Schrödinger equation.Two types of modes, namely, fast and slow dust-acoustic (DA)modes, have been observed.The conditions for the modulational instability (MI)and its growth rate in the unstable regime of the DA waves are significantly modified by the effects of non-extensive electrons, dust mass, and temperatures of different plasma species, etc.The implications of the obtained results from our current investigation in space and laboratory OPDP medium are briefly discussed.

Key words: dust-acoustic waves, opposite polarity, modulational instability, envelope solitons

1 Introduction

Now-a-days, the study of dusty plasma (DP)is one of the most rapidly growing branches in plasma physics due to their existence in space, viz., planetary rings,[1]cometary tails,[2]Jupiter’s magnetosphere,[2]lower part of the Earth’s atmosphere[1]and also in laboratory plasmas.[3−7]The DP have generally considered to be an ensemble of negatively charged dust grains,free electrons,and ions.However, the co-existence of opposite polarity(OP)dust grains in plasmas introduces a new DP model called OP DP (OPDP)whose main constituent species are positively and negatively charged warm massive dust grains.[2,6]The exclusive property of this OPDP, which makes it completely unique from other plasmas(viz.,electron ion and electron-positron plasmas), is that the ratio of the size of positively charged dust grains to that of negatively charged dust grains can be smaller[8]or larger[9]or equal to unity.[9]There are three main processes by which dust grains become positively charged: (a)Secondary emission of electrons from the surface of the dust grains; (b)Thermionic emission induced by the radiative heating; (c)Photoemission in the presence of a flux of ultraviolet photons.[1,10]

The researchers have focused on wave dynamics,specifically, dust-acoustic (DA)waves (DAWs), dustacoustic rogue waves (DARWs), and dust ion-acoustic waves(DIAWs)in understanding electrostatic density perturbations and potential structures (viz., shock, soliton,envelope solitons,[11−12]and rogue waves[13−15])in DP.Raoet al.[14]first theoretically predicted the existence of very low frequency DAWs (where the inertia is provided by the dust mass and restoring force is provided by the thermal pressure of electrons and ions)in comparison with the electron and ion thermal velocities and this theoretical prediction has been conclusively verified by Barkenet al.[4]There is also direct evidence for the co-existence of both positively and negatively charged dust grains in different regions of space plasmas(viz.,cometary tails,[2]upper mesosphere,[2]and Jupiter’s magnetosphere,[10]etc.)and laboratory devices (viz., direct current and radiofrequency discharges,[1]plasma processing reactors,[16]fusion plasma devices,and solid-fuel combustion products,[1]etc).The novelty of this OPDP has attracted numerous authors[17−21]to investigate the linear and nonlinear propagation of electrostatic waves.Sayed and Mamun[2]studied the finite solitary potential structures that exist in OPDP.El-Taibany[17]examined the DAWs in inhomogeneous four component OPDP, and observed that only compressive soliton is created corresponding to fast DA mode.

In space and astro-physical situations, if the plasma species move very fast compared to their thermal velocities[22]then the Maxwellian distribution is no longer valid to explain the dynamics of these plasma species.For that reason, Tsallis proposed the non-extensive statistics,[23]which is the generalisation of Boltzmann-Gibbs-Shannon entropy.The importance of Tsallis statistics is that it can easily describe the long range interactions of the electron-ion in DP system.[13−15]The research regarding modulational instability (MI)of DAWs in nonlinear and dispersive mediums has been increasing significantly due to their existence in astrophysics, space physics[11−15]as well as in application in many laboratory situations.[11]A large number of researchers have used the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE), which governs the dynamics of the DAWs, to study the formation of the envelope solitons or rogue waves[13−15]in DP.Bainset al.[13]investigated the MI of the DAWs in non-extensive DP.Moslemet al.[14]have studied the MI of the DAWs in three component DP in presence of the non-extensive electrons and ions, and have found that the threshold wave number(kc)increases withq.Duanet al.[19]have investigated the criteria for MI of the DAWs and the formation of envelope solitons in OPDP.Zaghbeeret al.[20]have reported DARWs in a four component OPDP.Gillet al.[21]have studied MI of DAWs in a four component OPDP,and have found that the presence of positive dust grains significantly modify the domain of the MI and localized envelope solitons.To the best knowledge of the authors,no attempt has been made to study the MI and corresponding dark and bright envelope solitons associated with the DAWs in a four component OPDP in presence of OP warm adiabatic dust grains.The aim of the present investigation is therefore to extend the work of Gillet al.[21]by examining the conditions for the MI of the DAWs (in which inertia is provided by the OP warm dust masses and restoring force is provided by the thermal pressure ofq-distributed electrons and iso-thermal ions)in four component OPDP.

The manuscript is organized as the following fashion:The governing equations of our plasma model are provided in Sec.2.The NLSE is derived in Sec.3.The stability of DAWs is examined in Sec.4.Envelope solitons is presented in Sec.5.Finally, a brief discussion is provided in Sec.6.

2 Model Equations

In this paper, we consider a collisionless, fully ionized,unmagnetized four component dusty plasma system composed ofq-distributed electrons (charge−e, massme),iso-thermal ions (charge +e, massmi)and inertial warm negatively charged dust grains (chargeq1=−z1e, massm1)as well as positively charged warm dust grains(chargeq2=+z2e, massm2), wherez1(z2)is the charge state of the negatively (positively)charged warm dust particles.The negatively and positively charged warm dust grains can be displayed by continuity and momentum equations,respectively, as:

wheren1(n2)is the number densities of the negatively(positively)charged warm dust grains;t(x)is the time(space)variable;u1(u2)is the fluid speed of the negatively (positively)charged warm dust species;eis the magnitude of the charge of the electron;φis the electrostatic wave potential;p1(p2)is the adiabatic pressure of the negatively(positively)charged warm dust grains.The system is enclosed through Poisson’s equation as

whereniandneare, respectively, the ion and electron number densities.The quasi-neutrality condition at equilibrium can be written as

whereni0,n20,ne0, andn10are the equilibrium number densities of the iso-thermal ions, positively charged warm dust grains,q-distributed electrons, and negatively charged warm dust grains, respectively.Now, in terms of normalized variables,namely,N1=n1/n10,N2=n2/n20;U1=u1/Cd1(withCd1being the sound speed of the negatively charged warm dust grains);U2=u2/Cd1,ϕ=eφ/kBTi(withTibeing the temperature of the isothermal ion);T=tωpd1(withωpd1being the plasma frequency of the negatively charged warm dust grains);X=x/λDd1(withλDd1being the Debye length of the negatively charged warm dust grains);Cd1=(z1kBTi/m1)1/2,ωpd1= (4πe2z21n10/m1)1/2,λDd1= (kBTi/4πe2z1n10)1/2;p1=p10(n1/n10)γ(withp10being the equilibrium adiabatic pressure of the negatively charged warm dust grains andγ= (N+ 2)/N, whereNis the degree of freedom, for one-dimensional case,N= 1 so thatγ= 3);p10=n10kBT1(withT1being the temperature of the negatively charged warm dust grains andkBis the Boltzmann constant);p2=p20(n2/n20)3(withp20being the equilibrium adiabatic pressure of the positively charged warm dust grains)andp20=n20kBT2(withT2being the temperature of the positively charged warm dust particles).After normalization, the governing equations (1)–(5)can be written as

whereσ1=T1/z1Ti,σ2=m1T2/z1m2Ti,α=m1z2/m2z1,β=z2n20/z1n10,andµi=ni0/z1n10.It may be noted here that we have considered for our numerical analysism1> m2,n10> n20, andTe,Ti ≫T1,T2.The number densities of the non-extensiveq-distributed[15]electron can be given by the following normalized equation

whereδ=Ti/Te(withTebeing the temperature of the non-extensiveq-distributed electron andTe > Ti)andqis the non-extensive parameter describing the degree of non-extensivity, i.e.,q= 1 indicates the Maxwellian distribution, whereasq <1 refers to the super-extensivity,and the opposite conditionq >1 corresponds to the subextensivity.[15]The number densities of the iso-thermally distributed[15]ion can be represented as

Now,by substituting Eqs.(12)and(13)into Eq.(11),and extending up to the third order inϕ, we can obtain

where

The left hand side of Eq.(14)is the contribution of electron and ion species.

3 Derivation of the NLSE

We will use the reductive perturbation method(RPM)to derive the NLSE for studying the MI of the DAWs in OPDP.Now, the stretched co-ordinate[15]can be defined as

whereVgis the envelope group velocity andϵis a small but real parameter.The dependent variables[15]can be written as

where Υ=kX −ωTandk(ω)is the carrier wave number (frequency).The derivative operators in the above equations are considered as follows:

Now, by substituting Eqs.(15)–(23)into Eqs.(7)–(10),and Eq.(14)and collecting power term ofϵ, the first order approximation(m=1)with the first harmonic(l=1)provides the following relation

whereλ=3σ1andθ=3σ2.Now, these equations can be reduced to the following pattern

whereA=ω2−θk2andS=λk2−ω2.Therefore, the dispersion relation for the DAWs can be written as

whereG= (λk2+θk2+θγ1+λγ1+αβ+ 1),H=(k2+γ1)/k2, andM=k2(θλk2+θγ1λ+θ+αβλ).The conditionG2>4HMmust be satisfied in order to obtain real and positive values ofω.Normally, two types of DA modes exist, namely, fast (ωf)and slow (ωs)DA modes according to the positive and negative sign of Eq.(33).Now,we have studied the dispersion properties by depictingωwithkin Figs.1 and 2 which clearly indicates that(a)The fast DA mode exponentially increases withkfor its lower range,but a saturation starts after a certain value ofk; (b)The value ofωfincreases exponentially with the increasing values ofz2for fixed value ofz1,n20, andn10(see in Fig.1); (c)On the other hand, the slow DA mode linearly increases withk; (d)Theωsdecreases with the increase ofz2for the fixed value ofz1,n20,andn10(see in Fig.2).This result agrees with the result of previous published work.[6,18]It is important to mention that in fast DA mode, both positive and negative warm dust species oscillate in phase with electrons and ions.Whereas in slow DA mode, only one of the inertial massive dust components oscillate in phase with electrons and ions,but the other species are in anti-phase with them.[15]Next, with the help of second-order(m=2 withl=1)equations, we obtain the expression ofVgas

Fig.1 The variation of ωf with k for different values of β, along with α= 1.2, δ= 0.3, µi= 1.4, σ1= 0.0001,σ2=0.001, and q=1.8.

Fig.2 The variation of ωs with k for different values of β, along with α= 1.2, δ= 0.3, µi= 1.4, σ1= 0.0001,σ2=0.001, and q=1.8.

From the next order ofϵ, we can get the secondharmonic mode of the carrier wave withm=2 andl=2 as

where

Now, we consider the expressions for (m= 3,l= 0)and(m=2,l=0), which lead to the zeroth harmonic modes.

Finally, we get

where

Now, we can obtain the standard NLSE from the third harmonic(m=3,l=1)modes with the help of Eqs.(29)–(44)which can be written as

where Φ=for simplicity and the dispersion (P)and nonlinear (Q)coefficient are, respectively, written as

where

4 Stability DAWs

The DAWs are modulationally stable against external perturbation whenP/Q <0.On the other hand,whenP/Q >0, the DAWs are modulationally unstable against external perturbation.WhenP/Q →±∞, the corresponding value ofk(=kc)is called the critical or threshold wave number(kc)for the onset of MI.The variation ofP/Qwithkforµiandαare shown in Figs.3 and 4, respectively, which clearly indicate that (a)The value ofkcincreases with the increase ofni0for fixed value ofz1andn10; (b)On the other hand,kcvalue decreases with the increase ofm2for fixed value ofm1,z2, andz1.The growth rate (Γ)of the modulationally unstable region for the DAWs(whenP/Q>0 and<=(2Q||2/P)1/2)can be written as[6,11−12,15,18]

Fig.3 The variation of P/Q with k for different values ofµi,along with α=1.2,β=0.07,δ=0.3,σ1=0.0001,σ2=0.001, q=1.8, and ωf.

Fig.4 The variation of P/Q with k for different values of α,along with β=0.07,δ=0.3,µi=1.4,σ1=0.0001,σ2=0.001, q=1.8, and ωs.

Now,we have graphically shown how the Γ varies withfor different values ofαandqin Figs.5–9.It is obvious from Figs.5–7 that (a)Within three limits ofq(q= 1,q=+ve,andq=−ve),the maximum value of Γ increases with the increases in the value ofz2for fixed valuesz1,m1,andm2(viaα); (b)So, the effects of theαon the maximum value of the growth rate is independent from the various limits ofq.The physics of this result is that the nonlinearity, which leads to increase the maximum value of the growth rate of DAWs, increases with the increase in the values ofα.

Fig.5 The variation of Γ with for different values of α(when q=1.0), along with β=0.07, δ=0.3, µi=1.4,σ1=0.0001, σ2=0.001, =0.5, k=0.6, and ωf.

Fig.6 The variation of Γ with for different values of α(when q=1.5), along with β=0.07, δ=0.3, µi=1.4,σ1=0.0001, σ2=0.001, =0.5, k=0.6, and ωf.

Fig.7 The variation of Γ with for different values of α(when q=−0.6), along with β=0.07, δ=0.3, µi=1.4,σ1=0.0001, σ2=0.001, =0.5, k=0.6, and ωf.

The effects of non-extensivity of the electrons on the MI growth rate can be observed from Figs.8 and 9,and it is obvious from these figures that(a)The maximum value of Γ decreases (decreases)with the increase in the values ofqfor the limits ofq >1 (q <1); (b)So, the variation of Γ with respect tois independent on the sign of theq.This result agrees with the result of previous published work.[18]

Fig.8 The variation of Γ with for q (q > 1), along with α= 1.2, β= 0.07, δ= 0.3, µi= 1.4, σ1= 0.0001,σ2=0.001, =0.5, k=0.6, and ωf.

Fig.9 The variation of Γ with for q (q < 1), along with α= 1.2, β= 0.07, δ= 0.3, µi= 1.4, σ1= 0.0001,σ2=0.001, =0.5, k=0.6, and ωf.

5 Envelope Solitons

The bright(whenP/Q>0)and dark(whenP/Q<0)envelope solitonic solutions, respectively, can be written as[24−27]

whereψ0indicates the envelope amplitude,Uis the traveling speed of the localized pulse,Wis the pulse width which can be written asand Ω0is the oscillating frequency forU=0.The bright (by using Eq.(47))and dark (by using Eq.(48))envelope solitons are depicted in Figs.10 and 11, respectively.

Fig.10 The variation of Re(Φ)with ξ for k=0.6(bright envelope solitons), along with α=1.2, β=0.07, δ=0.3,µi= 1.4, σ1= 0.0001, σ2= 0.001, τ= 0, ψ0= 0.008,q=1.5, Ω0=0.4, U=0.4, and ωf.

Fig.11 The variation of Re(Φ)with ξ for k=0.2(dark envelope solitons), along with α=1.2, β=0.07, δ=0.3,µi= 1.4, σ1= 0.0001, σ2= 0.001, τ= 0, ψ0= 0.008,q=1.5, Ω0=0.4, U=0.4, and ωf.

6 Discussion

We have studied an unmagnetized realistic space dusty plasma system consists ofq-distributed electrons, isothermal ions, positively charged warm dust grains as well as negatively charged warm dust grains.The RPM is used to derive the NLSE.The results that have been found from our investigation can be summarized as follows:

(i)The fast DA mode increases exponentially withz2for fixed value ofz1,n20, andn10(viaβ).On the other hand, the slow DA mode linearly decreases with the increase ofz2for the fixed value ofz1,n20, andn10(viaβ).

(ii)The DAWs is modulationally stable (unstable)in the range of values ofkin which the ratioP/QisP/Q<0(P/Q>0).

(iii)The value ofkcincreases with the increase ofni0for fixed value ofz1andn10(viaµiand for fast mode).On the other hand,kcvalue decreases with the increase ofm2for fixed value ofm1,z2, andz1(viaαand for slow mode).

(iv)The value of Γ increases withαfor fixed value ofq(within three ranges ofq, namely,q >1,q= 1, andq <1).So, the variation of Γ withαis independent of possible values ofq.

(v)The maximum value of Γ decreases (decreases)with the increase in the values ofqfor the limitsq >1(q <1).So, the growth rate is independent on the sign of theq.

The results of our present investigation will be useful in understanding the nonlinear phenomena both in space (viz., Jupiters magnetosphere,[2]upper mesosphere,and comets tails,[2]etc.)and laboratory (viz., direct current and radio-frequency discharges, plasma processing reactors, fusion plasma devices,[1]and solid-fuel combustion products,[1]etc.)plasma system containingqdistributed electrons, iso-thermal ions, negatively and positively charged massive warm dust grains in OPDP medium.