Interaction of upper hybrid waves with dust-ion-magnetoacoustic waves and stable two-dimensional solitons in dusty plasmas

TL;DR

This paper develops a two-dimensional nonlinear model describing the interaction of upper hybrid waves with dust-ion-magnetoacoustic waves in dusty plasmas, revealing stable nonlocal solitons with unique profiles.

Contribution

It introduces a novel 2D nonlinear system accounting for scalar and vector nonlinearities, and demonstrates the existence and stability of unique nonlocal solitons in dusty plasmas.

Findings

Instability thresholds are easily exceeded in real dusty plasmas.

Numerical soliton solutions exhibit nonmonotonic, hump-like radial profiles.

Nonlocal nonlinearity ensures the stability of the ground state.

Abstract

We obtain a two-dimensional nonlinear system of equations for the electrostatic potential envelope and the low-frequency magnetic field perturbation to describe the interaction of the upper hybrid wave propagating perpendicular to an external magnetic field with the dust-ion-magnetoacoustic (DIMA) wave in a magnetized dusty plasma. The equations contain both scalar and vector nonlinearities. A nonlinear dispersion relation is derived and the decay and modulation instability thresholds and growth rates are obtained. Numerical estimates show that instability thresholds can easily be exceeded in real dusty plasmas. In the static (subsonic) approximation, a two-dimensional (2D) soliton solution (ground state) is found numerically by the generalized Petviashvili relaxation method. The perturbations of the magnetic field and plasma density in the soliton are nonmonotonic in space and, along with the perturbation in the form of a well, there are also perturbation humps. Such peculiar radial soliton profiles differ significantly from previously known results on 2D solitons. The key point is that the presence of a gap in the DIMA wave dispersion due to the Rao cutoff frequency causes the nonlinearity to be nonlocal. We show that due to nonlocal nonlinearity the Hamiltonian is bounded below at fixed energy, proving the stability of the ground state.