Laser-assisted binding of ultracold polar molecules with Rydberg atoms in the van der Waals regime

Vanessa Olaya, Jesús Pérez-Ríos, Felipe Herrera

We study ultracold long-range collisions of heteronuclear alkali-metal dimers with a reservoir gas of alkali-metal Rydberg atoms in a two-photon laser excitation scheme. In a low d…