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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

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

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 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 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…

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 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

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…

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

A Rydberg and a ground-state atom can form ultralong range diatomic molecules provided the interaction between the ground-state atom and the Rydberg electron is attractive [C. H. Greene, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2458 (2000)]. A…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-07-15 Ivan C. H. Liu , Jovica Stanojevic , Jan M. Rost

Ultra-long-range Rydberg molecules (ULRMs) have attracted significant interest due to their unique electronic properties and potential applications in quantum technologies. We theoretically investigate the formation and characteristics of…

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

We explore the feasibility of optically forming long-range tetratomic and larger polyatomic molecules in their ground electronic state from ultracold pairs of polar molecules aligned by external fields. Depending on the relative orientation…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Marko Gacesa , Jason N. Byrd , Jonathan Smucker , John A. Montgomery, , Robin Côté

We unravel some peculiar properties of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules formed by an $s$-state $^{87}$Rb Rydberg atom and a corresponding ground-state atom whose electronic orbitals are spherically symmetric and therefore should not be…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 Frederic Hummel , Christian Fey , Peter Schmelcher

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

A fascinating aspect of Rydberg atoms is their ability to form huge but very weakly bound molecules with a ground state atom, only held together by a scattering process between the latter and the Rydberg electron. Beyond the usual way of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 Andrej Junginger , Jörg Main , Günter Wunner

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 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
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