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We investigate the electronic structure of a triatomic Rydberg molecule formed by a Rydberg atom and two neutral ground-state atoms. Taking into account the $s$-wave and $p$-wave interactions we perform electronic structure calculations and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Javier Aguilera Fernández , Peter Schmelcher , Rosario González-Férez

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 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 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 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

Trilobite molecules are ultralong-range Rydberg molecules formed when a high angular momentum Rydberg electron scatters off of a ground-state atom. Their unique electronic structure and highly oscillatory potential energy curves support a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Rohan Srikumar , Seth T. Rittenhouse , Peter Schmelcher

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 the non-adiabatic quantum dynamics of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules using a vibronically coupled two-channel treatment. The two channels are composed of coupled trilobite and butterfly electronic states, formed as a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Felix Giering , Rohan Srikumar , 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

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 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

Ultralong-range Rydberg molecules provide an exciting testbed for molecular physics at exaggerated scales. In the so-called trilobite and butterfly Rydberg molecules, the Born-Oppenheimer approximation can fail due to strong non-adiabatic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Frederic Hummel , Peter Schmelcher , Matthew T. Eiles

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 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…

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 show that the recently observed class of long-range ion-Rydberg molecules can be divided into two families of states, which are characterised by their unique electronic structures resulting from the ion-induced admixture of quantum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Daniel J. Bosworth , Frederic Hummel , Peter Schmelcher

We detail the rich electronic and vibrational structure of triatomic "butterfly" molecules, ultra-long-range Rydberg molecules bound by resonant $p$-wave scattering. We divide these molecules into two sub-classes depending on their parity…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Matthew T. Eiles , Christian Fey , Frederic Hummel , Peter Schmelcher

The determination of ultra-long-range molecular potential curves has been reformulated using the Coulomb Greens function to give a solution in terms of the roots of an analytical determinantal equation. For a system consisting of one…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Chris H. Greene , Matthew T. Eiles

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
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