Diffusive and structural properties in the binary mixture of charged particles are investigated based on the molecular dynamical simulation. It is shown that the particles with higher charge enhance or weaken the diffusion of the whole system depending on the coupling strength, and regimes of subdiffusion as well as normal diffusion are identified. The nonmonotonous diffusion, i.e., the diffusion at first is increased and then is decreased with increasing the higher charged particles, is strongest close to the phase from liquidlike state to solidlike state. Stronger coupling and lower concentration of higher charged particles are in favor of the formation of ordered shells centered at the higher charged particles.

• Received 10 January 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.036406