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 …

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 …

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 …

Green's-function treatment of Rydberg molecules with spins

CH Greene, MT Eiles - Physical Review A, 2023‏ - APS
The determination of ultra-long-range molecular potential curves has been reformulated
using the Coulomb Green's function to give a solution in terms of the roots of an analytical …

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 …

Probing nonlocal spatial correlations in quantum gases with ultra-long-range Rydberg molecules

JD Whalen, SK Kanungo, R Ding, M Wagner… - Physical Review A, 2019‏ - APS
We present photoexcitation of ultra-long-range Rydberg molecules as a probe of spatial
correlations in bosonic and fermionic quantum gases. Rydberg molecules can be created …

Heteronuclear long-range Rydberg molecules

M Peper, J Deiglmayr - Physical Review Letters, 2021‏ - APS
We present the formation of homonuclear Cs 2, K 2, and heteronuclear CsK long-range
Rydberg molecules in a dual-species magneto-optical trap for K 39 and Cs 133 by one …

Synthetic dimension-induced conical intersections in Rydberg molecules

F Hummel, MT Eiles, P Schmelcher - Physical Review Letters, 2021‏ - APS
We observe a series of conical intersections in the potential energy curves governing both
the collision between a Rydberg atom and a ground-state atom and the structure of Rydberg …

Deeply bound () and molecules for eight spin couplings

JL MacLennan, YJ Chen, G Raithel - Physical Review A, 2019‏ - APS
We observe long-range Rb 85 and Rb 87 (24 DJ+ 5 S 1/2) Rydberg molecules for eight
different spin couplings, with binding energies up to 440 MHz and subpercent relative …

Dressed ion-pair states of an ultralong-range Rydberg molecule

P Giannakeas, MT Eiles, F Robicheaux, JM Rost - Physical Review Letters, 2020‏ - APS
We predict the existence of a universal class of ultralong-range Rydberg molecular states
whose vibrational spectra form trimmed Rydberg series. A dressed ion-pair model captures …