Hydrodynamic Stabilization of Self-Organized Criticality in a Driven Rydberg Gas
Hydrodynamic Stabilization of Self-Organized Criticality in a Driven Rydberg Gas
Signatures of self-organized criticality (SOC) have recently been observed in an ultracold atomic gas under continuous laser excitation to strongly interacting Rydberg states [S. Helmrich et al., Nature, 577, 481--486 (2020)]. This creates unique possibilities to study this intriguing dynamical phenomenon under controlled experimental conditions. Here we theoretically and experimentally …