Ultrafast electron cooling in an expanding ultracold plasma

Here the authors report on the creation of ultracold plasma by photoionization of a Bose-Einstein condensate with a femtosecond laser pulse. The experimental setup grants direct access to the electron temperature and reveals ultrafast cooling of electrons in an initially strongly coupled plasma.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tobias Kroker, Mario Großmann, Klaus Sengstock, Markus Drescher, Philipp Wessels-Staarmann, Juliette Simonet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20815-8