A. Scurtu

Structural reset and non-equilibrium steady states in a dusty plasma under impulsive forcing

This work investigates the response of a vortex-structured dusty plasma to a short, intense perturbation produced by a coaxial plasma jet operated at 1 kV. The jet delivers an impulsive forcing that accelerates dust grains far beyond their thermal velocities, leading to the complete loss of the coherent two-vortex orga...