Intercombination effects in resonant energy transfer (2015)
Journal Article
Vaillant, C., Potvliege, R., & Jones, M. (2015). Intercombination effects in resonant energy transfer. Physical Review A, 92(4), Article 042705. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.92.042705

We investigate the effect of intercombination transitions in excitation hopping processes such as those found in Förster resonance energy transfer. Taking strontium Rydberg states as our model system, the breakdown of LS coupling leads to weakly allo... Read More about Intercombination effects in resonant energy transfer.

Multichannel quantum defect theory of strontium bound Rydberg states (2014)
Journal Article
Vaillant, C., Jones, M., & Potvliege, R. (2014). Multichannel quantum defect theory of strontium bound Rydberg states. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 47(15), Article 155001. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/47/15/155001

Using the reactance matrix approach, we systematically develop new multichannel quantum defect theory (MQDT) models for the singlet and triplet S, P, D and F states of strontium below the first ionization limit, based on improved energy level measure... Read More about Multichannel quantum defect theory of strontium bound Rydberg states.

Long-range Rydberg–Rydberg interactions in calcium, strontium and ytterbium (2012)
Journal Article
Vaillant, C., Jones, M., & Potvliege, R. (2012). Long-range Rydberg–Rydberg interactions in calcium, strontium and ytterbium. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 45(13), Article 135004. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/45/13/135004

Long-range dipole–dipole and quadrupole–quadrupole interactions between pairs of Rydberg atoms are calculated perturbatively for calcium, strontium and ytterbium within the Coulomb approximation. Quantum defects, obtained by fitting existing laser sp... Read More about Long-range Rydberg–Rydberg interactions in calcium, strontium and ytterbium.