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We investigate the structure and features of an ultralong-range triatomic Rydberg molecule formed by a Rb Rydberg atom and a KRb diatomic molecule. In our numerical description, we perform a realistic treatment of the internal rotational…

We explore the electronic structure and rovibrational properties of an ultralong-range triatomic Rydberg molecule formed by a Rydberg atom and a ground state heteronuclear diatomic molecule. We focus here on interaction of Rb($27s$) Rydberg…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Rosario González-Férez , H. R. Sadeghpour , Peter Schmelcher

We explore the external electric field control of a species of ultralong-range molecules that emerge from the interaction of a ground state polar molecule with a Rydberg atom. The external field mixes the Rydberg electronic states and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-06-01 M. Mayle , S. T. Rittenhouse , P. Schmelcher , H. R. Sadeghpour

We investigate the impact of combined electric and magnetic fields on the structure of ultralong-range polar Rydberg molecules. Our focus is hereby on the parallel as well as the crossed field configuration taking into account both the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-09-11 Markus Kurz , Peter Schmelcher

We explore the electronic structure of ultralong-range pentaatomic Rydberg molecules from a merger of a Rydberg atom and two ground state heteronuclear diatomic molecules. Our focus is on the interaction of Rb($23s$) and Rb($n=20$, $l\ge…

We investigate the impact of an electric field on the structure of ultralong-range polar diatomic Rydberg molecules. Both the s-wave and p-wave interactions of the Rydberg electron and the neutral ground state atom are taken into account.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Markus Kurz , Peter Schmelcher

We investigate polyatomic ultralong-range Rydberg molecules consisting of three ground state atoms bound to a Rydberg atom via $s$- and $p$-wave interactions. By employing the finite basis set representation of the unperturbed Rydberg…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Christian Fey , Markus Kurz , Peter Schmelcher

We investigate the quantum dynamics of ultra-long-range trilobite molecules exposed to homogeneous electric fields. A trilobite molecule consists of a Rydberg atom and a ground-state atom, which is trapped at large internuclear distances in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Frederic Hummel , Kevin Keiler , Peter Schmelcher

Rydberg molecule, formed by one or more Rydberg atoms, exhibits remarkable properties, including an exceptionally large spatial extent, rich rovibrational level structures, permanent electric dipole moments, and a pronounced sensitivity to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Jingxu Bai , Yuechun Jiao , Xiao-Qiang Shao , Weibin Li , Jianming Zhao

Sufficiently high densities in Bose-Einstein condensates provide favorable conditions for the production of ultralong-range polyatomic molecules consisting of one Rydberg atom and a number of neutral ground state atoms. The chemical binding…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Matthew T Eiles , Jesus Perez-Rios , F Robicheaux , Chris H Greene

We investigate properties of ultralong-range polyatomic molecules formed with a Rb Rydberg atom and several ground-state atoms whose distance from the Rydberg atom is of the order of n^2a_0, where n is the principle quantum number of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivan C. H. Liu , Jan M. Rost

This Ph.D. 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 wave function. This novel chemical bond is distinct from an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Matthew T Eiles

We investigate triatomic molecules that consist of two ground state atoms and a highly excited Rydberg atom, bound at large internuclear distances of thousands of \AA ngstroms. In the molecular state the Rydberg electron is in a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Christian Fey , Frederic Hummel , Peter Schmelcher

We consider ultralong-range polyatomic Rydberg molecules formed by combining a Rydberg cesium atom and a ground-state RbCs molecule. We explore the regime where the charge-dipole interaction due to the Rydberg electron with the diatomic…

Ultralong-range Rydberg molecules, composed of an excited Rydberg atom and a ground-state atom, are characterized by large bond lengths, dipole moments, sensitivity to external fields, and an unusual binding mechanism based on low-energy…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Agata Wojciechowska , Michał Tomza , Matthew T. Eiles

The internal electric field of a Rydberg atom electron can bind a polar molecule to form a giant ultralong-range stable polyatomic molecule. Such molecules not only share their properties with Rydberg atoms, they possess huge permanent…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Seth T. Rittenhouse , M. Mayle , P. Schmelcher , H. R. Sadeghpour

The formation of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules is a result of the attractive interaction between Rydberg electron and polarizable ground state atom in an ultracold gas. In the nondegenerate case the backaction of the polarizable atom on…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 A. Gaj , A. T. Krupp , P. Ilzhöfer , R. Löw , S. Hofferberth , T. Pfau

We show the existence of ultra-long-range giant dipole molecules formed by a neutral alkali ground state atom that is bound to the decentered electronic wave function of a giant dipole atom. The adiabatic potential surfaces emerging from…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-03-14 Markus Kurz , Michael Mayle , Peter Schmelcher

We present a comprehensive study of the diverse properties of heteronuclear Rydberg molecules, placing a special emphasis on those composed of the light alkali atoms, Li, Na, and K. Electron-atom scattering phase shifts, which determine the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Matthew T. Eiles

We review ultralong-range Rydberg molecules (ULRM), which are bound states between a Rydberg atom and one or more ground-state atoms with bond lengths on the order of thousands of Bohr radii. The binding originates from multiple…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Christian Fey , Frederic Hummel , Peter Schmelcher
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