FROM 1 R TO 1/R(2) POTENTIALS - ELECTRON-EXCHANGE BETWEEN RYDBERG ATOMS AND POLAR-MOLECULES/

Authors
DESFRANCOIS C ABDOULCARIME H KHELIFA N SCHERMANN JP
Citation
C. Desfrancois et al., FROM 1 R TO 1/R(2) POTENTIALS - ELECTRON-EXCHANGE BETWEEN RYDBERG ATOMS AND POLAR-MOLECULES/, Physical review letters, 73(18), 1994, pp. 2436-2439
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
73
Issue
18
Year of publication
1994
Pages
2436 - 2439
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1994)73:18<2436:F1RT1P>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
Several new molecular anions, in their dipole-bound ground states, hav e been created by charge exchange between polar molecules and laser-ex cited Rydberg atoms. Measurement of electron-binding energies, by mean s of electric field detachment, as function of known molecular dipole moments gives the first experimental estimation of the minimum molecul ar dipole required to bind an electron.