Velocity Relaxation in a Strongly Coupled Plasma
Plasma Physics
2013-02-26 v1 Atomic Physics
Abstract
Collisional relaxation of Coulomb systems is studied in the strongly coupled regime. We use an optical pump-probe approach to manipulate and monitor the dynamics of ions in an ultracold neutral plasma, which allows direct measurement of relaxation rates in a regime where common Landau-Spitzer theory breaks down. Numerical simulations confirm the experimental results and display non-Markovian dynamics at early times.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1302.6100,
title = {Velocity Relaxation in a Strongly Coupled Plasma},
author = {G. Bannasch and J. Castro and P. McQuillen and T. Pohl and T. C. Killian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.6100},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
5 pages, 5 figures