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Cross-Molecular Coupling in Combined Photoassociation and Feshbach Resonances

Atomic Physics 2008-07-30 v2 Chemical Physics

Abstract

We model combined photoassociation and Feshbach resonances in a Bose-Einstein condensate. When the magnetic field is far-off resonance, cross coupling between the two target molecules--enabled by the shared dissociation continuum--leads to an anomalous dispersive shift in the position of laser resonance, as well as unprecedented elimination and enhancement of resonant photoassociation via quantum interference. For off-resonant lasers, a dispersive shift and quantum interference appear similarly in resonant three-body Feshbach losses, except that the Feshbach node is tunable with intensity.

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@article{arxiv.0804.3011,
  title  = {Cross-Molecular Coupling in Combined Photoassociation and Feshbach Resonances},
  author = {Matt Mackie and Matthew Fenty and Danielle Savage and Jake Kesselman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.3011},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figs, 22+ refs; v2 improved abstract, refined discussion of exptl motivation, improved word choice in discussion of future work; to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett