Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Observation of pendular butterfly Rydberg molecules

  • Thomas Niederprüm,
  • Oliver Thomas,
  • Tanita Eichert,
  • Carsten Lippe,
  • Jesús Pérez-Ríos,
  • Chris H. Greene,
  • Herwig Ott

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12820
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Rydberg molecules have potential for ultracold chemistry applications in light of their unconventional binding mechanism that provides high tunability. Here the authors observe and control butterfly Rydberg molecules, which are bound by a shape resonance in the electron-perturber scattering.