title: Creation of polar and nonpolar ultra-long-range rydberg molecules
abstract: We predict the existence of a ubiquitous class of long-range molecular Rydberg states, whose Born-Oppenheimer potential curves are oscillatory in nature. These oscillations reflect the nodal structure of the atomic Rydberg state wave functions. The temperature and density of atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate are particularly favorable for the laser excitation of ultra-long-range vibrational bound states localized at internuclear distances in the range 10(3)- 10(5) a.u. A surprising trilobitelike class of polar homonuclear diatomics should exhibit electric dipole moments in the kilodebye range.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA.
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Greene
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Dickinson
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Sadeghpour