Rate limit for photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein condensate
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v1 Atomic Physics
Chemical Physics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We simulate numerically the photodissociation of molecules into noncondensate atom pairs that accompanies photoassociation of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate into a molecular condensate. Such rogue photodissociation sets a limit on the achievable rate of photoassociation. Given the atom density \rho and mass m, the limit is approximately 6\hbar\rho^{2/3}/m. At low temperatures this is a more stringent restriction than the unitary limit of scattering theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0108349,
title = {Rate limit for photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein condensate},
author = {Juha Javanainen and Matt Mackie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0108349},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pgs, 18 refs., 3 figs., submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett