By photoionizing samples of laser-cooled atoms with laser light tuned just above the
ionization limit, plasmas can be created with electron and ion temperatures below 10 K …

In this paper, we present ideas that were part of the miniconference on the crossover
between High Energy Density Plasmas (HEDP) and Ultracold Neutral Plasmas (UNPs) at …

A theoretical model is developed and evaluated using a Vlasov–Poisson treatment to
calculate radio frequency (RF) electric field heating rates for magnetized electrons in neutral …

In high-intensity laser light, matter can be ionized by direct multiphoton absorption even at
photon energies below the ionization threshold. However on tuning the laser to the lowest …

Spontaneous avalanche to plasma splits the core of an ellipsoidal Rydberg gas of nitric
oxide. Ambipolar expansion first quenches the electron temperature of this core plasma …

This paper offers a toolbox for characterizing the initial conditions and predicting the
evolution of the ultracold plasma that forms after resonant laser preparation of a Rydberg …

Not long after metastable xenon was photoionized in a magneto-optical trap, groups in
Europe and North America found that similar states of ionized gas evolved spontaneously …

We report measurements and simulations of the time-evolving rms velocity distribution in an
ultracold neutral plasma. A strongly coupled ultracold neutral Ca+ plasma is generated by …

Double-resonant transitions excite nitric oxide in a seeded supersonic molecular beam,
yielding a state-selected Rydberg gas that evolves to form an ultracold plasma. This plasma …

Inelastic n-changing collisions play an important role in the evolution of Rydberg atoms into
ultracold plasmas. However, for the initially intermediate n (n∼ 40) Rydberg states, these …