Atoms and molecules in lattices: condensates built on a shared vacuum
Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
In optical lattices where each site is occupied in its lowest energy state by a superposition of zero, one and two atoms, one can in a controllable manner convert the atomic pair into a molecule while retaining the vacuum and one-atom amplitudes. The microscopic quantum coherence on each site between the vacuum and the single molecule component leads to a macroscopically populated molecular condensate when the lattice is removed.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0210324,
title = {Atoms and molecules in lattices: condensates built on a shared vacuum},
author = {Tilman Esslinger and Klaus Molmer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0210324},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure