Rubidium Rydberg linear macrotrimers
Atomic Physics
2015-06-12 v1
Abstract
We investigate the interaction between three rubidium atoms in highly excited () Rydberg states lying along a common axis and calculate the potential energy surfaces (PES) between the three atoms. We find that three-body long-range potential wells exist in some of these surfaces, indicating the existence of very extended bound states that we label \textit{macrotrimers}. We calculate the lowest vibrational eigenmodes and the resulting energy levels and show that the corresponding vibrational periods are rapid enough to be detected spectroscopically.
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@article{arxiv.1301.2538,
title = {Rubidium Rydberg linear macrotrimers},
author = {Nolan Samboy and Robin Côté},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.2538},
year = {2015}
}