Publications

If you use PairInteraction in your research, please cite the following publication:

Sebastian Weber, Christoph Tresp, Henri Menke, Alban Urvoy, Ofer Firstenberg, Hans Peter Büchler, Sebastian Hofferberth, Tutorial: Calculation of Rydberg interaction potentials, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 50, 133001 (2017), arXiv:1612.08053

@article{Weber2017,
    author = {Weber, Sebastian and Tresp, Christoph and Menke, Henri and Urvoy, Alban and Firstenberg, Ofer and B{\"u}chler, Hans Peter and Hofferberth, Sebastian},
    title = {{Tutorial: Calculation of Rydberg interaction potentials}},
    journal = {J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys.},
    volume = {50},
    number = {13},
    pages = {133001},
    year = {2017},
    doi = {10.1088/1361-6455/aa743a},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/aa743a}
}

PairInteraction relies on quantum defects provided by the community. We encourage users to cite the relevant publications for their atomic species alongside PairInteraction.

Element	Model	Identifier	References
H	SQDT	H	Schrödinger equation for hydrogen
Li	SQDT	Li	10.1017/CBO9780511524530 (1994); 10.1103/PhysRevA.34.2889 (1986)
Na	SQDT	Na	10.1088/0953-4075/30/10/009 (1997); 10.1070/QE1995v025n09ABEH000501 (1995); 10.1103/PhysRevA.45.4720 (1992)
K	SQDT	K	10.1088/0031-8949/27/4/012 (1983); 10.1016/0030-4018(81)90225-X (1981)
Rb	SQDT	Rb	10.1103/PhysRevA.83.052515 (2011); 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.054502 (2006); 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.062712 (2006); 10.1103/PhysRevA.67.052502 (2003)
Cs	SQDT	Cs	10.1103/PhysRevA.93.013424 (2016); 10.1103/PhysRevA.35.4650 (1987); 10.1103/PhysRevA.26.2733 (1982)
Sr88	SQDT, singlet sector	Sr88_singlet	10.1103/PhysRevA.108.022815 (2023); 10.17169/refubium-34581 (2022)
Sr88	SQDT, triplet sector	Sr88_triplet	10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107814 (2021)
Sr87	MQDT	Sr87_mqdt	10.1088/1361-6455/ab4c22 (2019)
Sr88	MQDT	Sr88_mqdt	10.1088/1361-6455/ab4c22 (2019)
Yb171	MQDT	Yb171_mqdt	10.1103/PhysRevX.15.011009 (2025); 10.1103/mzsv-rckx (2025)
Yb173	MQDT	Yb173_mqdt	MQDT model formulated by us
Yb174	MQDT	Yb174_mqdt	10.1103/PhysRevX.15.011009 (2025); 10.1103/mzsv-rckx (2025)

The identifier can be used to specify an atomic species in the PairInteraction software.