Rubidium on helium droplets: Analysis of an exotic rydberg complex for n* < 20 and 0 ≤ l ≤ 3

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1404-1408

  Lackner, Florian ^a   Krois, Günter ^a   Koch, Markus ^a   Ernst, Wolfgang E ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB POTENTIAL; DIFFERENT SIZES; ELECTRON ORBITAL; EXPECTATION VALUES; HELIUM DROPLETS; IONIZATION THRESHOLDS; NANO-SIZED; PRINCIPAL QUANTUM NUMBERS; QUANTUM DEFECTS; RUBIDIUM ATOMS; RYDBERG; RYDBERG CHARACTER; RYDBERG SERIES;

DEFECTS; DROPS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; HELIUM; IONIZATION POTENTIAL; QUANTUM THEORY; RUBIDIUM;

RYDBERG STATES;

EID: 84862078010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz300381y     Document Type: Article

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