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Ultra-cold plasmas: a paradigm for strongly coupled and classical electron fluids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2009

CLAUDE DEUTSCH ,
GUENTER ZWICKNAGEL  and
ANTOINE BRET
CLAUDE DEUTSCH
Affiliation:
LPGP (UMR-CNRS 8578), Bât. 210, UPS, 91405 Orsay, France
GUENTER ZWICKNAGEL
Affiliation:
Institut fuer Theoretische Physik II, Staudtstr. 7, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
ANTOINE BRET
Affiliation:
ETSI Industriales, Universidad de Castilla, La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain
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Ultra-cold plasmas obtained by ionization of atomic Rydberg states are qualified as classical and strongly coupled electron fluids. They are shown to share several common trends with ultra-cold electron flows used for ion-beam cooling. They exhibit specific stopping behaviour to charged particle beams, which may be used for diagnostic purposes. Ultra-cold plasmas are easily strongly magnetized. Then, one expects a strongly anisotropic behaviour of low ion velocity slowing down when the target electron cyclotron radius becomes smaller than the corresponding Debye length.

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 75 , Issue 6 , December 2009 , pp. 799 - 815
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