Atom-Ion Interactions and Ultralong-range Molecules

Presentations

• Closed-Form Solution of the First Born Approximation for Direct Excitation in Simple Ion-Atom Collisions

  Oral

  June 3, 2026, 10:30 AM – June 3, 2026, 10:42 AM

  Presenters

  • Thomas Winter

    • retired

  Authors

  • Thomas Winter

    • retired

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• Three-Body Recombination in Ion–Atom Systems: Effects of Statistics and Universality

  Oral

  June 3, 2026, 10:42 AM – June 3, 2026, 10:54 AM

  Presenters

  • Panos Giannakeas

    • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

  Authors

  • Panos Giannakeas

    • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

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• Classical Description of He₂⁺ Recombination

  Oral

  June 3, 2026, 10:54 AM – June 3, 2026, 11:06 AM

  Presenters

  • Rian Koots

    • Stony Brook University (SUNY)

  Authors

  • Rian Koots

    • Stony Brook University (SUNY)

  • Jesus Perez Rios

    • Stony Brook University (SUNY)

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• Coordination-driven magic numbers in protonated argon clusters

  Oral

  June 3, 2026, 11:06 AM – June 3, 2026, 11:18 AM

  Publication: Saajid Chowdhury, María Judit Montes de Oca-Estévez, Florian Foitzik, Elisabeth Gruber, Paul Scheier, Pablo Villarreal, Rita Prosmiti, Tomás González-Lezana, and Jesús Pérez-Ríos (2026). "Coordination-driven magic numbers in protonated argon clusters". (Under review).

  Presenters

  • Saajid Chowdhury

    • Stony Brook University (SUNY)

  Authors

  • Saajid Chowdhury

    • Stony Brook University (SUNY)

  • María Judit Montes de Oca-Estévez

  • Florian Foitzik

  • Elisabeth Gruber

  • Paul Scheier

  • Pablo Villarreal

  • Rita Prosmiti

  • Tomás González-Lezana

  • Jesus Perez Rios

    • Stony Brook University (SUNY)

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• Intramolecular electronic and rotational angular momentum coupling in ⁸⁴Sr ¹D₂ ultralong-range Rydberg dimers

  Oral

  June 3, 2026, 11:18 AM – June 3, 2026, 11:30 AM

  Publication: C. Wang, A. Li, S. K. Kanungo, T. C. Killian, F. B. Dunning, and S. Yoshida. Intramolecular electronic and rotational angular momentum coupling in 84Sr n1D2 ultralong-range Rydberg dimers. Submitted to Phys. Rev. A, under review.

  Presenters

  • A. Li

  Authors

  • A. Li

  • C. Wang

    • Rice University

  • S. K. Kanungo

    • Rice University

  • T. C. Killian

  • F. B. Dunning

  • S. Yoshida

    • TU Wien

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• Observation of spin singlet butterfly Rydberg molecules in an ultracold atomic Rb gas

  Oral

  June 3, 2026, 11:30 AM – June 3, 2026, 11:42 AM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.21620

  Presenters

  • Matthew Eiles

    • Purdue University- West Lafayette

  Authors

  • Matthew Eiles

    • Purdue University- West Lafayette

  • Markus Exner

    • Technical University of Kaiserslautern

  • Rohan Srikumar

  • Richard Blaettner

  • Hossein Sadeghpour

    • Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

  • Peter Schmelcher

    • University of Hamburg

  • Herwig Ott

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• Revealing Electron–Ytterbium Interactions through Rydberg Molecular Spectroscopy

  Oral

  June 3, 2026, 11:42 AM – June 3, 2026, 11:54 AM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.20609

  Presenters

  • Milena Simić

    • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

  Authors

  • Milena Simić

    • Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

  • Tangi Legrand

  • Xin Wang

  • Florian Pausewang

  • Wolfgang Alt

    • Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bonn, Germany

  • Eduardo Urunuela

  • Matthew Eiles

    • Purdue University- West Lafayette

  • Sebastian Hofferberth

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• Machine Learning for Three-Body Recombination Rates Across 8 Decades of Energy

  Oral

  June 3, 2026, 11:54 AM – June 3, 2026, 12:06 PM

  Publication: Julian, Daniel & Pérez-Ríos, Jesús. (2025). Machine learning prediction of a chemical reaction over 8 decades of energy. Physical Review Research. 7. 10.1103/gkwq-ls2k.

  Presenters

  • Daniel Julian

    • Stony Brook University (SUNY)

  Authors

  • Daniel Julian

    • Stony Brook University (SUNY)

  • Jesus Perez Rios

    • Stony Brook University (SUNY)

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