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View SchemaPlasma formation from ultracold Rydberg gases
| Authors | T. Pohl, T. Pattard, J. M. Rost |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0303052 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0303052 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.68.010703 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A 68, 010703(R) (2003), (c) 2003 The American Physical Society |
Abstract
Recent experiments have demonstrated the spontaneous evolution of a gas of ultracold Rydberg atoms into an expanding ultracold plasma, as well as the reverse process of plasma recombination into highly excited atomic states. Treating the evolution of the plasma on the basis of kinetic equations, while ionization/excitation and recombination are incorporated using rate equations, we have investigated theoretically the Rydberg-to-plasma transition. Including the influence of spatial correlations on the plasma dynamics in an approximate way we find that ionic correlations change the results only quantitatively but not qualitatively.
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"doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.68.010703",
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"title": "Plasma formation from ultracold Rydberg gases",
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