vrinceanu/plasma-mdqt-simulation

A code combining molecular dynamics (MD) and quantum trajectories (QT) to simulate the interaction of ions in ultracold neutral plasmas with cooling lasers.

Laser-Driven and Magnetized UCNPs

This repository contains numerical models for laser-driven and magnetized ultracold neutral plasmas developed by Thomas Killian's research group at Rice University.

• laser-cooling-2019: a combined molecular-dynamics and quantum-trajectories (MDQT) code that simulates the laser cooling of ions in an ultracold neutral plasma [1].
• magnetized-lif-2021: rate equation and MDQT codes that describe laser-induced fluorsecence of an electron-spin polarized ultracold neutral plasma in a magnetic field [2].

References

[1] G.M. Gorman, T.K. Langin, M. K. Warrens, D. Vrinceanu and T. C. Killian, Combined molecular-dynamics and quantum-trajectories simulation of laser-driven, collisional systems, Phys. Rev. A 101, 012710 (2020).

[2] G.M. Gorman, M.K. Warrens, S.J. Bradshaw, and T.C. Killian, Laser-Induced Fluorescence Imaging of a Spin-polarized Ultracold Neutral Plasma in a Magnetic Field, submitted for publication to Physical Review A.