Measurement of temperature of a dusty plasma from configuration

Abstract

A new method called `Configurational Temperature' is introduced in the context of dusty plasma, where the temperature of the dust particles submerged in the plasma can be measured directly from the positional information of the individual dust particles and the interaction potential between the dust grains. We do not need the information of velocity of individual dust particles to measure the temperature in this technique. The method is initially tested using two and three dimensional OpenMP parallel Molecular Dynamics and Monte-Carlo simulation and finally experimantal data from DPEx device is fed into the new diagnostics and the results are compared with the standard PIV technique.