Rubidium Rydberg linear macrotrimers

Nolan Samboy; Robin Côté

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.87.032512

Rubidium Rydberg linear macrotrimers

Nolan Samboy
, Robin Côté

Physics

University of Connecticut
College of the Holy Cross

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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 between the three atoms. We find that three-body long-range potential wells exist in some of these surfaces, indicating the existence of very extended bound states that we label macrotrimers. We calculate the lowest vibrational eigenmodes and the resulting energy levels and show that the corresponding vibrational periods are rapid enough to be detected spectroscopically.

Original language	English
Article number	032512
Journal	Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume	87
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.87.032512
State	Published - Mar 20 2013

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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