Ultracold molecules formed by photoassociation: Heteronuclear dimers, inelastic collisions, and interactions with ultrashort laser pulses

J Ulmanis, J Deiglmayr, M Repp, R Wester… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Photoassociation of molecules out of an ultracold gas was thefirst successful approach to
create a gas of molecules in the electronic ground state at translational temperatures in the …

Ultracold rydberg molecules

JP Shaffer, ST Rittenhouse, HR Sadeghpour - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Ultracold molecules formed from association of a single Rydberg atom with surrounding
atoms or molecules and those from double Rydberg excitations are discussed in this review …

An experimental and theoretical guide to strongly interacting Rydberg gases

R Löw, H Weimer, J Nipper, JB Balewski… - Journal of Physics B …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We review experimental and theoretical tools to excite, study and understand strongly
interacting Rydberg gases. The focus lies on the excitation of dense ultracold atomic …

Dipole blockade in a cold Rydberg atomic sample

D Comparat, P Pillet - JOSA B, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We review here the studies performed about interactions in an assembly of cold Rydberg
atoms. We focus especially on the review of the dipole–dipole interactions and on the effect …

Rydberg superatoms: An artificial quantum system for quantum information processing and quantum optics

XQ Shao, SL Su, L Li, R Nath, JH Wu, W Li - Applied Physics Reviews, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Rydberg superatoms: An artificial quantum system for quantum information processing and
quantum optics | Applied Physics Reviews | AIP Publishing Skip to Main Content Umbrella Alt …

[HTML][HTML] Coupling a single electron to a Bose–Einstein condensate

JB Balewski, AT Krupp, A Gaj, D Peter, HP Büchler… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The coupling of electrons to matter lies at the heart of our understanding of material
properties such as electrical conductivity. Electron–phonon coupling can lead to the …

Rydberg dressing: understanding of collective many-body effects and implications for experiments

JB Balewski, AT Krupp, A Gaj, S Hofferberth… - New Journal of …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The strong interaction between Rydberg atoms can be used to control the strength and
character of the interatomic interaction in ultracold gases by weakly dressing the atoms with …

Observation of vibrational dynamics of orientated Rydberg-atom-ion molecules

YQ Zou, M Berngruber, VSV Anasuri, N Zuber… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Vibrational dynamics in conventional molecules usually takes place on a timescale of
picoseconds or shorter. A striking exception are ultralong-range Rydberg molecules, for …

From molecular spectra to a density shift in dense Rydberg gases

A Gaj, AT Krupp, JB Balewski, R Löw… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
In Rydberg atoms, at least one electron is excited to a state with a high principal quantum
number. In an ultracold environment, this low-energy electron can scatter off a ground state …

Mesoscopic Rydberg impurity in an atomic quantum gas

R Schmidt, HR Sadeghpour, E Demler - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
Giant impurity excitations are powerful probes for exploring new regimes of far out of
equilibrium dynamics in few-and many-body quantum systems, and in situ observations of …