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Ultracold nonequilibrium plasma created by a dye laser has been studied by the molecular dynamics method. Electrons and protons in this model of nonequilibrium plasma interacted according to the Coulomb law. In the case of electron-proton interaction and a distance between particles r < a 0 (Bohr radius), the interaction energy is constant, e 2/a 0 (e is the charge of electron). An initial proton kinetic energy is set randomly so that the average kinetic energy is 0.01–1 K. Initial full electron energy is also set randomly, but at the same time it is positive; i.e., all the electrons according to our task are located in the continuous spectrum. Average kinetic electron energy per one particle varies from 1 to 50 K. The motion equations in periodical boundary condition for this system have been solved by molecular dynamics method. We have calculated the distribution function in the region near the ionization threshold. The distribution function is being described using electron state density in the nearest neighbor approximation with activity correction.
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Bobrov, A.A., Manykin, E.A., Zelener, B.B. et al. Distribution function and electron state density in nonequilibrium plasma created by dye laser. Laser Phys. 17, 415–418 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1054660X07040172
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