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We have calculated long-range molecular potentials of the $0_g^{+}$, $0_u^{-}$ and $1_u$ symmetries between highly-excited rubidium atoms. Strong $np+np$ potentials characterized by these symmetries are important in describing interaction-induced phenomena in the excitation spectra of high $np$ Rydberg states. Long-range molecular resonances are such phenomena and they were first reported in S.M. Farooqi {it et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {bf 91} 183002. One class of these resonances occurs at energies corresponding to excited atom pairs $(n-1)d+ns$. Such resonances are attributed to $ell$-mixing due to Rydberg-Rydberg interactions so that otherwise forbidden molecular transitions become allowed. We calculate molecular potentials in Hunds case (c), use them to find the resonance lineshape and compare to experimental results.
In the laser excitation of ultracold atoms to Rydberg states, we observe a dramatic suppression caused by van der Waals interactions. This behavior is interpreted as a local excitation blockade: Rydberg atoms strongly inhibit excitation of their neig
Long-range dipole-dipole and quadrupole-quadrupole interactions between pairs of Rydberg atoms are calculated perturbatively for calcium, strontium and ytterbium within the Coulomb approximation. Quantum defects, obtained by fitting existing laser sp
We develop a theoretical approach for the dynamics of Rydberg excitations in ultracold gases, with a realistically large number of atoms. We rely on the reduction of the single-atom Bloch equations to rate equations, which is possible under various e
We report the experimental observation of strong two-color optical nonlinearity in an ultracold gas of $^{85}mathrm{Rb}$-$^{87}mathrm{Rb}$ atom mixture. By simultaneously coupling two probe transitions of $^{85}$Rb and $^{87}$Rb atoms to Rydberg stat
We study the effect of resonances associated with complex molecular interaction of Rydberg atoms on Rydberg blockade. We show that densely-spaced molecular potentials between doubly-excited atomic pairs become unavoidably resonant with the optical ex