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- We report on recent progress regarding the theoretical treatment of doubly-excited Rydberg states of atoms with two valence electrons. Building upon state-of-the-art techniques,wedemonstrate that an approach based on configuration interaction with exterior complex scaling (CI-ECS) is capable of describing high Rydberg states (n ∼ 100) and does not rely on the ssumptions of R-matrix multichannel quantum-defect theory. We show that CI-ECS allows the simultaneous, accurate treatment of a range of doubly-excited Rydberg states broader than previously possible. The implementation of the method with numerical basis functions is explained in detail. As an example, CI-ECS calculations of the doubly-excited states of Mg and Sr are presented, and excellent agreement is found with available experimental data. The CI-ECS method opens new perspectives for studying collective two-electron dynamics in doubly-excited Rydberg states of alkaline-earth metal atoms, and is also of interest for the field of Rydberg-based quantum simulation.
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Génévriez, M. (2020). Theoretical approaches for doubly-excited Rydberg states in quasi-two-electron systems: two-electron dynamics far away from the nucleus. Molecular Physics : an international journal at the interface between chemistry and physics, 119(7), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2020.1861353 (Original work published 2020)