Preparation of high orbital angular momentum Rydberg states by optical-millimeter-wave STIRAP

Rydberg states of molecules are intrinsically challenging to study due to the presence of fast non-radiative decay pathways, such as predissociation. However, selectively exciting Rydberg states with values of the orbital angular momentum (ℓ) ℓ ≳ 3 is a productive strategy to minimize this rapid dec...

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Main Authors: Barnum, Timothy James (Author), Herburger, H. (Author), Grimes, David Darrah (Author), Jiang, Jun (Author), Field, Robert W (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing, 2020-10-26T14:39:59Z.
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520 |a Rydberg states of molecules are intrinsically challenging to study due to the presence of fast non-radiative decay pathways, such as predissociation. However, selectively exciting Rydberg states with values of the orbital angular momentum (ℓ) ℓ ≳ 3 is a productive strategy to minimize this rapid decay and to populate molecular Rydberg states with lifetimes that approach those of atoms. In this proof-of-principle demonstration, we transfer population to an nf Rydberg state of the calcium atom by stimulated Raman adiabatic passage, in which an optical and a millimeter-wave field couple the initial and final states via an intermediate nd Rydberg state. Numerical simulations reproduce the observed time and frequency dependences of the population transfer and suggest the utility of this scheme to populate high-ℓ Rydberg states of molecules. ©2020 
520 |a NSF Award (No. CHE-1800410) 
520 |a AFOSR Award (FA9550-16-1-0117) 
520 |a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Grant (No. 1122374) 
520 |a DOE (Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344) 
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655 7 |a Article 
773 |t The Journal of chemical physics