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We have calculated long-range molecular potentials of the $0_g^{+}$, $0_u^{-}$ and $1_u$ symmetries between highly-excited rubidium atoms. Strong $np+np$ potentials characterized by these symmetries are important in describing…
We investigate the interaction between three rubidium atoms in highly excited ($58p$) 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…
We present a study of the Rydberg spectrum in \ts{166}Er for series connected to the $4f^{12} (^3H_6) 6s$, $J_c=13/2 $ and $J_c=11/2 $ ionic core states using an all-optical detection based on electromagnetically induced transparency in an…
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…
We investigate the LiF spectrum up to $7800$ cm$^{-1}$ above the first dissociation limit. The ab initio calculations of the adiabatic potentials and other molecular functions are performed in a wide range of interatomic separations,…
Rydberg excited states of molecules pose a challenge for electronic structure calculations because of their highly diffuse electron distribution. Even large and elaborate atomic basis sets tend to underrepresent the long-range tail, overly…
We have investigated formation of structures of Rydberg atoms excited from a disordered gas of ultracold atoms, using rate equations for two-photon Rydberg excitation in a single atom without eliminating the intermediate state. We have…
Multiple adiabatic/diabatic passages through avoided crossings in the Stark map of cesium Rydberg atoms are employed as beam splitters and recombiners in an atom-interferometric measurement of energy-level splittings. We subject cold cesium…
Spectroscopy of Rydberg states has become a popular platform for quantum sensing, with the most common readout scheme being two-photon electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) using counter-propagating laser beams. In this scheme, the…
We predict the existence of a class of ultracold giant molecules formed from trapped ultracold Rydberg atoms and polar molecules. The interaction which leads to the formation of such molecules is the anisotropic charge-dipole interaction…
We demonstrate a technique based on optical heterodyne detection to measure Rydberg population in thermal atomic vapour. The technique used a probe beam far off resonant to the D2 line of rubidium along with a reference beam with frequency…
A potential energy curve (PEC) accurate to a fraction of 1 ppm ($1:10^6$) is computed for the $^3\Sigma_\mathrm{u}^+$ state of He$_2$ endowed with relativistic and QED corrections. The nuclear Schr\"odinger equation is solved on this PEC…
Neutral resonant states of molecules play a very important role in the dissociation dynamics and other electronic processes that occur via intermediate capture into these states. With the goal of identifying resonant states, and their…
We study the effect of resonances associated with complex molecular interaction of Rydberg atoms on Rydberg blockade. We show that densely-spaced molecular potentials between doubly-excited atomic pairs become unavoidably resonant with the…
Calculations of the lowest valence {\pi}* as well as the 3s and higher energy 3p{\sigma} Rydberg excited states of the CO2 molecule are carried out using density functionals with variational optimization of the orbitals, an approach…
We demonstrate the phenomenon of blockade in two-photon excitations to the Rydberg state in thermal vapor. A technique based on optical heterodyne is used to measure the dispersion of a probe beam far off resonant to the D2 line of rubidium…
We investigate a long-range interaction between $64D_{5/2}$ Rydberg-atom pairs and antiblockade effect employing a two-color excitation scheme. The first color (pulse A) is set to resonantly excite the Rydberg transition and prepare a few…
Rydberg Matter (RM) theory is previously shown to give good agreement with the unidentified infrared bands (UIR, UIB) that are observed in emission from many objects in space. From stimulated emission studies in RM, a slightly simpler…
N$_2$ molecules traveling in pulsed supersonic beams have been excited from their ${\mathrm{X\,^1\Sigma_{\mathrm{g}}^+}}$ ground electronic state to long-lived Rydberg states with principal quantum numbers between 39 and 48 using a…
We report efficient microwave-optical two photon excitation of Rb Rydberg atoms in a magneto optical trap. This approach allows the excitation of normally inaccessible states and provides a path toward excitation of high angular momentum…