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Florian Lackner1, Günter Krois1, Markus Koch1
1Institute of Experimental Physics, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 16, A-8010 Graz, Austria/EU.
Abstract:
Rubidium atom Rydberg states perturbed by helium droplets of different sizes provide insight into the role of a nanosized dielectric on the Coulomb potential. The observation of droplet size-dependent shifts of excited states with respect to bare atom states is explained by a decreased quantum defect and a lowered ionization threshold. Within the scope of a Rydberg model, we demonstrate that quantum defects and ionization potentials are constant for each specific Rydberg series, which confirms the Rydberg character of excited Rubidium states on helium droplets. A set of six Rydberg series could be identified. Individual Rydberg states are observed with effective principal quantum numbers up to n* ≈ 19 and l ≤ 3, for which the expectation value of the electron orbital radius is about 10 times larger than the droplet radius.
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