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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Physics-tailored machine learning reveals unexpected physics in dusty plasmas.

Wentao Yu, Eslam Abdelaleem, Ilya Nemenman, Justin C Burton

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Wentao YuDepartment of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Eslam AbdelaleemDepartment of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Ilya NemenmanDepartment of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.ORCID 0000-0003-3024-4244
Justin C BurtonDepartment of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.ORCID 0000-0002-4797-8968

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National Science Foundation (NSF) 2010524Simons Foundation (SF) 000000000U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DESC0021290
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Abstract

Dusty plasma is a mixture of ions, electrons, and macroscopic charged particles that is commonly found in space and planetary environments. The particles interact through Coulomb forces mediated by the surrounding plasma, and as a result, the effective forces between particles can be nonconservative and nonreciprocal. Machine learning (ML) models are a promising route to learn these complex forces, yet their structure should match the underlying physical constraints to provide useful insight. Here, we demonstrate and experimentally validate an ML approach that incorporates physical intuition to infer force laws in a laboratory dusty plasma. Trained on 3D particle trajectories, the model accounts for inherent symmetries, nonidentical particles, and learns the effective nonreciprocal forces between particles with exquisite accuracy (

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dusty plasmaforce inferencemachine learning

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PMID40743396
PMCPMC12337317

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