Comment on ``Ramsey Fringes in a Bose-Einstein Condensate between Atoms and Molecules''
Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
In Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 180401 (2002) [cond-mat/0204504], Kokkelmans and Holland interpret the results of a recent experiment at JILA that demonstrated atom-molecule coherence in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Using a mean-field approximation to a resonance field theory involving an atom condensate and a molecular condensate, they find that the molecular condensate is tiny compared to the atom condensate. We show that if the probability for the molecular field to create a diatomic molecule is correctly included, the numbers of atoms in the atom condensate and in the condensate of diatomic molecules are comparable.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0301489,
title = {Comment on ``Ramsey Fringes in a Bose-Einstein Condensate between Atoms and Molecules''},
author = {Eric Braaten and H. -W. Hammer and M. Kusunoki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0301489},
year = {2007}
}
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