Ultracold rydberg molecules

JP Shaffer, ST Rittenhouse, HR Sadeghpour - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Ultracold molecules formed from association of a single Rydberg atom with surrounding
atoms or molecules and those from double Rydberg excitations are discussed in this review …

Ultralong-range Rydberg molecules

C Fey, F Hummel, P Schmelcher - Molecular Physics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
We review ultralong-range Rydberg molecules (ULRMs), which are bound states between a
Rydberg atom and one or more ground-state atoms with bond lengths on the order of …

Vibronic interactions in trilobite and butterfly Rydberg molecules

F Hummel, P Schmelcher, MT Eiles - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Ultralong-range Rydberg molecules provide an exciting testbed for molecular physics at
exaggerated scales. In the so-called trilobite and butterfly Rydberg molecules, the Born …

Trilobites, butterflies, and other exotic specimens of long-range Rydberg molecules

MT Eiles - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This PhD tutorial discusses ultra-long-range Rydberg molecules, the exotic bound states of
a Rydberg atom and one or more ground state atoms immersed in the Rydberg electron's …

Ultracold chemical reactions of a single Rydberg atom in a dense gas

M Schlagmüller, TC Liebisch, F Engel, KS Kleinbach… - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
Within a dense environment (ρ≈ 10 14 atoms/cm 3) at ultracold temperatures (T< 1 μ K), a
single atom excited to a Rydberg state acts as a reaction center for surrounding neutral …

Exploring the vibrational series of pure trilobite Rydberg molecules

M Althön, M Exner, R Blättner, H Ott - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
In trilobite Rydberg molecules, an atom in the ground state is bound by electron-atom
scattering to a Rydberg electron that is in a superposition of high angular momentum states …

Precision spectroscopy of negative-ion resonances in ultralong-range Rydberg molecules

F Engel, T Dieterle, F Hummel, C Fey, P Schmelcher… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
The level structure of negative ions near the electron detachment limit dictates the low-
energy scattering of an electron with the parent neutral atom. We demonstrate that a single …

Simulating quantum spin models using Rydberg-excited atomic ensembles in magnetic microtrap arrays

S Whitlock, AW Glaetzle… - Journal of Physics B …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Simulating quantum spin models using Rydberg-excited atomic ensembles in magnetic
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Hamiltonian for the inclusion of spin effects in long-range Rydberg molecules

MT Eiles, CH Greene - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
The interaction between a Rydberg electron and a neutral atom situated inside its extended
orbit is described via contact interactions for each atom-electron scattering channel. In …

Nonadiabatic interaction effects in the spectra of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules

R Srikumar, F Hummel, P Schmelcher - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
Ultralong-range Rydberg molecules (ULRMs) are highly imbalanced bound systems formed
via the low-energy scattering of a Rydberg electron with a ground-state atom. We investigate …