Formation of ultracold ion pairs through long-range Rydberg molecules
Abstract
We propose a new approach to excite ion-pair states of ultracold dimers. The central idea is a two-step process where first long-range Rydberg molecules are formed by photoassociation, which are then driven by stimulated emission towards the ion-pair state, a process bearing features of a photo-induced harpooning reaction. We assess the feasibility of this approach through a detailed experimental and theoretical study on a specific system, p-wave-scattering dominated long-range Rydberg molecules in caesium, and discuss potential applications for the study of strongly correlated plasmas consisting of oppositely charged particles of equal or similar mass.
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@article{arxiv.2001.11754,
title = {Formation of ultracold ion pairs through long-range Rydberg molecules},
author = {Michael Peper and Johannes Deiglmayr},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.11754},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in J. Phys. B: Special Issue on Interacting Rydberg atoms (2019)