Velocity Relaxation in a Strongly Coupled Plasma
arXiv:1302.6100 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.185008
Abstract
Collisional relaxation of Coulomb systems is studied in the strongly coupled regime. We use an optical pump-probe approach to manipulate and monitor the dynamics of ions in an ultracold neutral plasma, which allows direct measurement of relaxation rates in a regime where common Landau-Spitzer theory breaks down. Numerical simulations confirm the experimental results and display non-Markovian dynamics at early times.
5 pages, 5 figures
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