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physics.atom-ph2025
Ultracold collisions of a neutral atom with a trapped ion in 1D
Seth T. Rittenhouse, Lorenzo Oghittu, Arghavan Safavi-Naini +2
We present a fully quantum mechanical description of a free Li atom scattering from a trapped Yb ion in one dimension. By reformulating the system in polar coordina…
physics.atom-ph2024
Internal diffraction dynamics of trilobite molecules
Rohan Srikumar, Seth T. Rittenhouse, Peter Schmelcher
Trilobite molecules are ultralong-range Rydberg molecules formed when a high angular momentum Rydberg electron scatters off of a ground-state atom. Their unique electronic structur…