Physical Review Letters · 1979 · 37 citations · 2 references
Natural SciencesPhysicsCondensed Matter PhysicsSurface ScienceTheoretical PhysicsCapillary WavesCondensed Matter TheoryLattice DynamicsNonlinear Wave DynamicsNonlinear Lattice DynamicsWave Nonlinearity
A nonlinear theory of the capillary waves accounts for the macroscopic lattice formation on the electron-charged surface of liquid helium observed in a recent experiment. The lattice allows both shear and compressional lattice waves to propagate.
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