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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 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…

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…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Seth T. Rittenhouse , H. R. Sadeghpour

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

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

The interaction between a Rydberg electron and a neutral atom situated inside its extended orbit is described via contact interactions for each atom-electron scattering channel. In ultracold environments, these interactions lead to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Matthew T Eiles , Chris H Greene

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 probe resonant dipolar interactions between ultracold $^{40}$K$^{87}$Rb molecules and Rydberg $^{87}$Rb atoms in an optically trapped ensemble. Through state-selective ionization detection of the KRb molecules, we observe resonant energy…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Lingbang Zhu , Jeshurun Luke , Roy Shaham , Yi-Xiang Liu , Kang-Kuen Ni

We present an overview of our recent investigations of long-range interactions in an ultracold Cs Rydberg gas. These interactions are studied by high-resolution photoassociation spectroscopy, using excitation close to one-photon transitions…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-07-15 Heiner Saßmannshausen , Johannes Deiglmayr , Frédéric Merkt

A generalized class of ultra-long-range Rydberg molecules is proposed which consist of a multichannel Rydberg atom whose outermost electron creates a chemical bond with a distant ground state atom. Such multichannel Rydberg molecules…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 Matthew T. Eiles , Chris H. Greene

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 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 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 report the creation of ultralong-range Sr$_2$ molecules comprising one ground-state $5s^2$ $^1S_0$ atom and one atom in a $5sns$ $^3S_1$ Rydberg state for $n$ ranging from 29 to 36. Molecules are created in a trapped ultracold atomic gas…

We observe that when an ultracold ground state cesium (Cs) atom becomes bound within the electronic cloud of an extended Cs electronic orbit, ultralong-range molecules with giant (kilo-Debye) permanent electric dipole moments form. Large…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Donald Booth , Seth Rittenhouse , Jin Yang , Hossein Sadeghpour , James Shaffer

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 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 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…

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