Ultralong-range Cs-RbCs Rydberg molecules: Nonadiabaticity of dipole moments
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Mellado Alcedo, David; Guttridge, Alexander; Cornish, Simon L.; Sadeghpour, H. R.; González Férez, María RosarioEditorial
American Physical Society
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2024-07-15Referencia bibliográfica
Phys. Rev. A 110, 013314
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Spanish Projects No. PID2020-113390GBI00 (MICIN), No. PY20_00082 (Junta de Andalucía), and No. A-FQM-52-UGR20 (ERDF-University of Granada); Andalusian research group FQM-207; UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Grants No. EP/P01058X/1, No. EP/V047302/1, and No. EP/W00299X/1; UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Frontier Research Grant No. EP/X023354/1; the Royal Society; Durham University. H.R.S. acknowledges support at ITAMP through a grant by the NSFResumen
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 polar molecule couples the quantum defect Rydberg states Cs(ns) to the nearest
degenerate hydrogenic manifold. We consider polyatomic Rydberg molecules in states which are amenable
to production in optical tweezers and study the influence of nonadiabatic coupling on the likelihood of their
formation. The decay rates of the vibrational states reflect the interference signature of wave function spread in
different coupled potential wells.