Density dependence of the ionization avalanche in ultracold Rydberg gases

• Main Authors: Siercke, M., Oon, F. E., Mohan, A., Wang, Z. W., Lim, M. J., Dumke, Rainer Helmut
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Mathematics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102330; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18973
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We report on the behavior of the ionization avalanche in an ensemble of ultracold 87Rb atoms coupled to a high-lying Rydberg state and investigate extensions to the current model by including the effects of three-body recombination and plasma expansion. To separate the two effects we study the time...