Ultracold chemical reactions of a single Rydberg atom in a dense gas

Michael Schlagmüller, Tara Cubel Liebisch, Felix Engel +10

Within a dense environment ($\rho \approx 10^{14}$atoms/cm${}^3$) at ultracold temperatures ($T<1\mu \text{K}$), a single atom excited to a Rydberg state acts as a reaction center for…