Rydberg trimers and excited dimers bound by internal quantum reflection

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 16, 2010, Pages

  Bendkowsky, V ^a   Butscher, B ^a   Nipper, J ^a   Balewski, J B ^a   Shaffer, J P ^a,c   Low R ^a   Pfau, T ^a   Li, W ^b   Stanojevic, J ^b   Pohl, T ^b   Rost, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GROUND-STATE ATOMS; PHOTOASSOCIATION; POTENTIAL DROP; QUANTUM REFLECTION; RYDBERG; RYDBERG ATOMS; RYDBERG MOLECULES; SINGLE-STEP; TRIATOMIC MOLECULES; ULTRA-COLD; ULTRACOLD TEMPERATURE;

OLIGOMERS;

MOLECULES;

EID: 77957910814     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.163201     Document Type: Article

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