| Ultracold Rydberg chemistry has attracted considerable interest due to the very large and extremely loosely bound molecules that can be formed between a Rydberg atom and a groundstate atom. The binding process in this case is due to scattering between the Rydberg electron and a ground state atom, as has been shown previously. We replace the ground state atom by a small ground state dimer, e.g. Rb2. The resulting potentials depend on the orientation of the ground state molecule relative to the radial axis of the Rydberg atom. This opens the way to new research directions and potential applications due to the measurement and potential manipulation of this angle. |
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