[phys4phys] SCL seminar: Milena Simic, Thursday, 14 November, 14:00

[Antun Balaz]

Dear colleagues,

You are cordially invited to the SCL seminar of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems, which will be held on Thursday, 14 November 2024 at 14:00 in the library reading room “Dr. Dragan Popović" of the Institute of Physics Belgrade. The talk entitled

Non-adiabatic couplings as a stabilization mechanism in long-range Rydberg molecules

will be given by Milena Simić (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany). The abstract of the talk:

Quantum reflection is a phenomenon where a quantum particle reflects off of a step-like potential remaining bound. This behavior is exhibited in ultralong-range Rydberg molecules, which abound with almost step-like drops at points where potential curves narrowly avoid each other. Despite such a potential landscape, there are numerous resonance states bound by quantum reflection, within Born-Oppenheimer approximation. However, when potential curves come close to each other, they become coupled, leading to significant non-adiabatic couplings. Their influence on molecular binding has been only recently studied in our work, and will be the main focus of this talk, which will start with a broad introduction to the Rydberg atoms and molecules.


Best regards,
Antun Balaž

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Dr. Antun Balaž
Research Professor

http://www.scl.rs/antun
Phone: +381 11 3713152
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Scientific Computing Laboratory
Center for the Study of Complex Systems

Institute of Physics Belgrade
National Institute of the Republic of Serbia
Pregrevica 118, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia
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