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Time Dependence Of Few-Body Forster Interactions Among Ultracold Rydberg Atoms, Zhimin Cheryl Liu, Nina P. Inman, Thomas J. Carroll, Michael W. Noel

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

Rubidium Rydberg atoms in either |m_j| sublevel of the 36p_3/2 state can exchange energy via Stark-tuned Förster resonances, including two-, three-, and four-body dipole-dipole interactions. Three-body interactions of this type were first reported and categorized by Faoro et al. [Nat. Commun. 6, 8173 (2015)] and their Borromean nature was confirmed by Tretyakov et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 173402 (2017)]. We report the time dependence of the N-body Förster resonance N×36p_3/2,|mj|=1/2→36s_1/2+37s_1/2+(N−2)×36p_3/2,|mj|=3/2, for N=2, 3, …