Time-Resolved Rubidium-Assisted Electron Capture by Barium (II) Cation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09580v2
• Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 19:58:26 GMT
• Title: Time-Resolved Rubidium-Assisted Electron Capture by Barium (II) Cation
• Authors: Axel Molle, Jan Philipp Drennhaus, Viktoria Noel, Nikola Kolev, Annika Bande,
• Abstract summary: Non-local energy transfer between bound electronic states close to the ionisation threshold is employed for efficient state preparation in dilute atom systems. We present the first development of a electron-dynamical model simulating fully three-dimensional atomic systems.
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• Abstract: Non-local energy transfer between bound electronic states close to the ionisation threshold is employed for efficient state preparation in dilute atom systems from technological foundations to quantum computing. The generalisation to electronic transitions into and out of the continuum is lacking quantum simulations necessary to motivate such potential experiments. Here, we present the first development of a electron-dynamical model simulating fully three-dimensional atomic systems for this purpose. We investigate the viability of this model for the prototypical case of recombination of ultracold barium(II) by environment-assisted electron capture thanks to a rubidium atom in its vicinity. Both atomic sites are modelled as effective one-electron systems using the Multi Configuration Time Dependent Hartree (MCTDH) algorithm and can transfer energy by dipole-dipole interaction. We find that the simulations are robust enough to realise assisted capture over a dilute interatomic distance which we are able to quantify by comparing to simulations without interatomic energy exchange. For our current parameters not yet optimised for reaction likelihood, an environment-ionising assisted capture has a probability of $1.9\times10^{-5}~\%$ over the first $15~\mathrm{fs}$ of the simulation. The environment-exciting assisted-capture path to $[\text{Ba}^{+*}\text{Rb}^{*}]$ appears as a stable long-lived intermediate state with a probability of $8.2\times10^{-4}~\%$ for at least $20~\mathrm{fs}$ after the capture has been completed. This model shows potential to predict optimised parameters as well as to accommodate the conditions present in experimental systems as closely as possible. We put the presented setup forward as a suitable first step to experimentally realise environment-assisted electron capture with current existing technologies.

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