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Formation of molecules in an expanding Bose-Einstein condensate

Soft Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

A mean field theory of expanding hybrid atom-molecule Bose-Einstein condensates is applied to the recent MPI experiments on 87{}^{87}Rb that demonstrated the formation of ultracold molecules due to Feshbach resonance. The subsequent dissociation of the molecules is treated using a non-mean-field parametric approximation. The latter method is also used in determining optimal conditions for the formation of molecular BEC

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0402334,
  title  = {Formation of molecules in an expanding Bose-Einstein condensate},
  author = {V. A. Yurovsky and A. Ben-Reuven},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0402334},
  year   = {2007}
}

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5 pages with 5 figures