SAMOP 2021 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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MO: Fachverband Molekülphysik

MO 1: Electronic

MO 1.1: Hauptvortrag

Montag, 20. September 2021, 10:45–11:15, H2

Long-range interactions between polar molecules and Rydberg atoms — •Martin Zeppenfeld — MPI für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann Str. 1, 85748 Garching

Due to large dipole moments in polar molecules and huge dipole moments in Rydberg atoms, strong interactions between polar molecules and Rydberg atoms persist for separations beyond 1 µm. This provides exciting opportunities in quantum science, with applications such as cooling of internal or motional molecular degrees of freedom, nondestructive molecule detection, and quantum information processing.

In my talk, I will provide an overview of these opportunities and present my work on realizing such ideas experimentally. In particularly, we have investigated Förster resonant energy transfer between molecules and Rydberg atoms at room temperature in the past, observing huge interaction cross sections and electric-field-controlled collisions. Currently we are setting up a new experiment to investigate interactions between cold molecules and Rydberg atoms, providing many new opportunities.