Dissociation and the development of spatial correlation in a molecular ultracold plasma.
Penning ionization initiates the evolution of a dense molecular Rydberg gas to plasma. This process selects for pairs of excited molecules separated by a distance of two Rydberg orbital diameters or less. The deactivated Penning partners predissociate, depleting the leading edge of the distribution...
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| author | Sadeghi, H Kruyen, A Hung, J Gurian, J Morrison, J Schulz-Weiling, M Saquet, N Rennick, C Grant, E |
| author_facet | Sadeghi, H Kruyen, A Hung, J Gurian, J Morrison, J Schulz-Weiling, M Saquet, N Rennick, C Grant, E |
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| description | Penning ionization initiates the evolution of a dense molecular Rydberg gas to plasma. This process selects for pairs of excited molecules separated by a distance of two Rydberg orbital diameters or less. The deactivated Penning partners predissociate, depleting the leading edge of the distribution of nearest-neighbor distances. For certain density and orbital radii, this sequence of events can form a plasma in which large distances separate a disproportionate fraction of the ions. Experimental results and model calculations suggest that the reduced potential energy of this Penning lattice significantly affects the development of strong coupling in an ultracold plasma. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:bfd887b3-213f-4056-8cc1-1a1705b167e62022-03-27T05:50:29ZDissociation and the development of spatial correlation in a molecular ultracold plasma.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:bfd887b3-213f-4056-8cc1-1a1705b167e6EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2014Sadeghi, HKruyen, AHung, JGurian, JMorrison, JSchulz-Weiling, MSaquet, NRennick, CGrant, EPenning ionization initiates the evolution of a dense molecular Rydberg gas to plasma. This process selects for pairs of excited molecules separated by a distance of two Rydberg orbital diameters or less. The deactivated Penning partners predissociate, depleting the leading edge of the distribution of nearest-neighbor distances. For certain density and orbital radii, this sequence of events can form a plasma in which large distances separate a disproportionate fraction of the ions. Experimental results and model calculations suggest that the reduced potential energy of this Penning lattice significantly affects the development of strong coupling in an ultracold plasma. |
| spellingShingle | Sadeghi, H Kruyen, A Hung, J Gurian, J Morrison, J Schulz-Weiling, M Saquet, N Rennick, C Grant, E Dissociation and the development of spatial correlation in a molecular ultracold plasma. |
| title | Dissociation and the development of spatial correlation in a molecular ultracold plasma. |
| title_full | Dissociation and the development of spatial correlation in a molecular ultracold plasma. |
| title_fullStr | Dissociation and the development of spatial correlation in a molecular ultracold plasma. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dissociation and the development of spatial correlation in a molecular ultracold plasma. |
| title_short | Dissociation and the development of spatial correlation in a molecular ultracold plasma. |
| title_sort | dissociation and the development of spatial correlation in a molecular ultracold plasma |
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