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In this chapter, we deal with the expansion and the quasi-equilibrium states of an ultra-cold plasma. We have seen that ultra-cold plasmas can be produced by photoionizing a small cloud of laser-cooled atoms confined in a magneto-optical trap, and subsequently expands into the surrounding vacuum. Two different situations are usually considered in the literature: (i) the ultra-cold atoms are firstly laser excited into high Rydberg states and then the Rydberg gas spontaneously evolves into a plasma; (ii) the ultra-cold atoms are directly ionized by the laser and Rydberg atoms are formed by electron-ion recombination as the plasma expands.
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t α is the inverse of the species collision frequency, \({t}_{\alpha } = {\nu }_{e}^{-1}\).
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Mendonça, J.T., Terças, H. (2013). Physics of Rydberg Plasmas. In: Physics of Ultra-Cold Matter. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 70. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5413-7_15
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