Creating Non-Maxwellian Velocity Distributions in Ultracold Plasmas

Details Creating Non-Maxwellian Velocity Distributions in Ultracold Plasmas Creating Non-Maxwellian Velocity Distributions in Ultracold Plasmas

2011-12-14

arxiv.org/abs/1112.3241v1

AIP Conf. Proc. 1421, 31 (2012)

Physics

Atomic Physics

13 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3679583

We present techniques to perturb, measure and model the ion velocity distribution in an ultracold neutral plasma produced by photoionization of strontium atoms. By optical pumping with circularly polarized light we promote ions with certain velocities to a different spin ground state, and probe the resulting perturbed velocity distribution through laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy. We discuss various approaches to extract the velocity distribution from our measured spectra, and assess their quality through comparisons with molecular dynamic simulations

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