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A: Fachverband Atomphysik
A 16: Ultra-cold atoms, ions, and BEC (joint session A/Q)
A 16.26: Poster
Wednesday, September 22, 2021, 16:30–18:30, P
Quantum gas microscopy of Rydberg macrodimers — •Kritsana Srakaew1, Simon Hollerith1, David Wei1, Daniel Adler1, Antoni Rubio-Abadal2, Andreas Kruckenhauser3, Valentin Walther4, Christian Gross5, Immanuel Bloch1,6, and Johannes Zeiher1 — 1Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany — 2The Institute of Photonic Sciences Mediterranean Technology, Castelldefels, Spain — 3Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Innsbruck, Austria — 4ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics, Campridge, USA — 5Physikalisches Institut, Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, Germany — 6Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Fakultät für Physik, München, Germany
A precise study of molecules is difficult due to a large number of motional degrees of freedom and the presence of an internal quantization axis, the interatomic axis. In the field of quantum simulation, Rydberg atoms recently gained attention due to their large interactions. These interactions also give rise to molecules with bond lengths reaching the micron scale, so-called macrodimers. Their large size allows one to pin atom pairs at a fixed orientation and distance matching the molecular bond length before photoassociation, which gives direct access to the molecular axis. Precise control and exploiting Quantum gas microscopy enables access to study different molecular symmetries and electronic structure tomography of the molecular state.