Non-adiabatic interaction effects in the spectra of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules
arXiv:2301.13044 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.108.012809
Abstract
Ultralong-range Rydberg molecules (ULRM) are highly imbalanced bound systems formed via the low-energy scattering of a Rydberg electron with a ground-state atom. We investigate for Na the -state and the energetically close-by trilobite state, exhibiting avoided crossings that lead to the breakdown of the adiabatic Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximation. We develop a coupled-channel approach to explore the non-adiabatic interaction effects between these electronic states. The resulting spectrum exhibits stark differences in comparison to the BO spectra, such as the existence of above-threshold resonant states without any adiabatic counterparts, and a significant rearrangement of the spectral structure as well as the localization of the eigenstates. Our study motivates the use of Na ULRM, as a probe to explore vibronic interaction effects on exaggerated time and length scales.
12 pages, 5 figures
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