Published March 11, 2025 | Version 1.0

Rydberg atom van der Waals interaction, C6 calulations - angular channel precalculated values

  • 1. ROR icon Durham University

Description

Precalculated angular channel values to compute the C6 interaction coefficients for vdW interaction between Rydberg atoms.

The data can be utilised via the Alkali Rydberg Calculator (ARC), usage examples can be found on ARCs GitHub page, or here: https://github.com/KarenWadenpfuhl/ARC-Alkali-Rydberg-Calculator/blob/master/doc/ARC_angularChannels.ipynb

The physics underlying the angular channel approach is outlined here: Unravelling the Structures in the van der Waals Interactions of Alkali Rydberg Atoms.

Data type is HDF5 with associated metadata.

We provide data for Rb-Rb and Cs-Cs pair states with n1, n2 in range 20-120 and angular quantum numbers L in {S, P, D, F}. Other atomic species combinations, also cross-species interactions like Rb-Cs, or for different principla quantum numbers n1, n2, or for different angular quantum numbers L1, L2, can be computed by the user. Appropriate functions are provided via ARC. An example Jupyter notebook detailling how to download the precalculated data, and generally how to use the angular channel functions, can be found here: https://github.com/KarenWadenpfuhl/ARC-Alkali-Rydberg-Calculator/blob/master/doc/ARC_angularChannels.ipynb

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Additional details

Additional titles

Subtitle
Data for "Unravelling the Structures in the van der Waals Interactions of Alkali Rydberg Atoms", Alkali-Rydber-Calculator

Related works

Is supplement to
Publication: arXiv:2412.14861 (arXiv)

Funding

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Quantum optics using Rydberg polaritons EP/V030280/1

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/nikolasibalic/ARC-Alkali-Rydberg-Calculator
Programming language
Python
Development Status
Active