Heteronuclear Rydberg molecules

J. D. Whalen, S. K. Kanungo, Y. Lu +4

We report the creation of heteronuclear ultralong-range Rydberg-molecule dimers by excitation of minority ${}^{88}\text{Sr}$ atoms to $5sns{}^3{S}_1$ Rydberg states ($n=31-39$) in a de…