Creation of a molecular condensate by dynamically melting a Mott-insulator
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v2 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We propose creation of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) by loading an atomic BEC into an optical lattice and driving it into a Mott insulator (MI) with exactly two atoms per site. Molecules in a MI state are then created under well defined conditions by photoassociation with essentially unit efficiency. Finally, the MI is melted and a superfluid state of the molecules is created. We study the dynamics of this process and photoassociation of tightly trapped atoms.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0204137,
title = {Creation of a molecular condensate by dynamically melting a Mott-insulator},
author = {D. Jaksch and V. Venturi and J. I. Cirac and C. J. Williams and P. Zoller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0204137},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
minor revisions, 5 pages, 3 figures, REVTEX4, accepted by PRL for publication