Energy absorption of quasineutral plasmas through electronic edge-modes
Plasma Physics
2010-12-13 v1 Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Abstract
Ultracold quasineutral plasmas generated in the laboratory are generically inhomogeneous and ex- hibit small charge imbalances. As will be demonstrated, via a hydrodynamic theory as well as microscopic simulations, the latter lead to efficient energy absorption at the plasma boundary. This proposed "edge-mode" is shown to provide a unified explanation for observed absorption spectra measured in different experiments. Understanding the response of the electronic plasma compo- nent to weak external driving is essential since it grants experimental access to the density and temperature of ultracold plasmas.
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@article{arxiv.1011.5937,
title = {Energy absorption of quasineutral plasmas through electronic edge-modes},
author = {Andrei Lyubonko and Thomas Pohl and Jan-Michael Rost},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.5937},
year = {2010}
}
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4 pages, 5 figures