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 …

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 …

Cold chemistry: a few-body perspective on impurity physics of a single ion in an ultracold bath

J Pérez-Ríos - Molecular Physics, 2021‏ - Taylor & Francis
Impurity physics is a traditional topic in condensed matter physics that nowadays is being
explored in the field of ultracold gases. Among the different classes of impurities, we focus …

Ultralong-range Rydberg molecules

FB Dunning, SK Kanungo… - Journal of Physics B …, 2024‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Ultralong-range Rydberg molecules (ULRMs) comprise a Rydberg atom in whose
electron cloud are embedded one (or more) ground-state atoms that are weakly-bound …

Heteronuclear rydberg molecules

JD Whalen, SK Kanungo, Y Lu, S Yoshida… - Physical Review A, 2020‏ - APS
We report the creation of heteronuclear ultralong-range Rydberg-molecule dimers by
excitation of minority Sr 88 atoms to 5 sns 3 S 1 Rydberg states (n= 31–39) in a dense …

Resolving rotationally excited states of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules

Y Lu, JD Whalen, SK Kanungo, TC Killian, FB Dunning… - Physical Review A, 2022‏ - APS
We report experimental observations of the rotational structure in photoassociative
spectroscopy of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules (ULRRMs) in an ultracold gas of Sr 86 …

Alignment of -state Rydberg molecules in magnetic fields

F Hummel, C Fey, P Schmelcher - Physical Review A, 2019‏ - APS
We unravel some peculiar properties of ultra-long-range Rydberg molecules formed by an s-
state Rb 87 Rydberg atom and a corresponding ground-state atom whose electronic orbitals …

Non-adiabatic couplings as a stabilization mechanism in long-range Rydberg molecules

AAT Durst, M Simić, N Abraham, MT Eiles - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024‏ - arxiv.org
Long-range Rydberg molecules are typically bound in wells formed in their oscillatory
potential energy curves. In alkaline Rydberg molecules, bound vibrational states exist even …

Quasi-static lineshape theory for Rydberg excitations in high-density media

T Scheuing, J Pérez-Ríos - Atoms, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
This work presents a theoretical approach for lineshapes of Rydberg excitations in high-
density media. In particular, we introduce the quasi-static lineshape theory, leading to a …

Spin-interaction effects for ultralong-range Rydberg molecules in a magnetic field

F Hummel, C Fey, P Schmelcher - Physical Review A, 2018‏ - APS
We investigate the fine and spin structure of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules exposed to
a homogeneous magnetic field. Each molecule consists of a Rb 87 Rydberg atom the outer …