Role of Bose enhancement in photoassociation
Atomic Physics
2015-06-26 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Chemical Physics
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We discuss the role of Bose enhancement of the dipole matrix element in photoassociation, using stimulated Raman adiabatic passage as an example. In a nondegenerate gas the time scale for coherent optical transients tends to infinity in the thermodynamic limit, whereas Bose enhancement keeps this time scale finite in a condensate. Coherent transients are therefore absent in photoassociation of a thermal nondegenerate gas, but are feasible if the gas is a condensate.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0006078,
title = {Role of Bose enhancement in photoassociation},
author = {Matt Mackie and Juha Javanainen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0006078},
year = {2015}
}
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14 pages, 2 figures