Dependence of the cloud size on interactions for a trapped degenerate ultracold plasma

We consider an ultracold plasma that has bosonic ions, at zero temperature. Assuming that ions are trapped by a harmonic trap, we calculate the size of the cloud for both screened and bare Coulomb interactions. Our results indicate that if clouds containing around 104 ions are confined with a trapping frequency of 10 kHz, stable radius is 15 μm for a fully screened two-component plasma while the radius increases to 2 mm for a one component plasma.