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 …

If the electrons in a plasma are suddenly heated, the resulting change in Debye shielding
causes the ion kinetic energy to quickly increase. For the first time, this correlation heating …

In plasmas at very low temperatures, the formation of neutral atoms is dominated by
collisional three-body recombination, owing to the strong∼ T− 9/2 scaling of the …

Penning ionization initiates the evolution of a dense molecular Rydberg gas to plasma. This
process selects for pairs of excited molecules separated by a distance of two Rydberg orbital …

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 …

Ultracold plasmas (UCPs) provide a well-controlled system for studying multiple aspects in
plasma physics that include collisions and strong-coupling effects. By applying a short …

We present a kinetic model based on coupled rate-equation simulations that accounts for
state-detailed rate processes in the evolution of a molecular Rydberg gas to plasma …

Coupled rate equation calculations demonstrate that the variational rate theory models for
the three-body electron–electron–ion scattering dynamics associated with ultracold plasma …

We investigate the collective dynamics of electrons in ultracold neutral plasmas driven by an
oscillating radio-frequency field. We point out the importance of a sharp density drop at the …

Disorder-induced heating (DIH) prevents ultracold neutral plasma into the electron strong
coupling regime. Here, we propose a scheme to suppress electronic DIH via optical lattice …