Trap assisted creation of giant molecules and Rydberg-mediated coherent charge transfer in a Penning trap

Details Trap assisted creation of giant molecules and Rydberg-mediated coherent charge transfer in a Penning trap Trap assisted creation of giant molecules and Rydberg-mediated coherent charge transfer in a Penning trap

2008-09-18

arxiv.org/abs/0809.3213v1

Phys. Rev. A 79, 010701 (2009)

Physics

Quantum Physics

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10.1103/PhysRevA.79.010701

We study two ions confined in a Penning trap. We show that electronically highly excited states exist in which an electron is delocalized among the two ions forming a giant molecule of several micrometer size. At energies close to the top of the Coulomb barrier these molecular states can be regarded as superpositions of Rydberg states of individual ions. We illuminate the possibility to observe coherent charge transfer between the ions. Beyond a critical principal quantum number the electron can coherently tunnel through the Coulomb barrier to an adjacent doubly charged ion. The tunneling occurs on timescales on which the dynamics of the nuclei can be considered frozen and radiative decay can be neglected.

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