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We explore the zero-temperature statics of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in which a Feshbach resonance creates a coupling to a second condensate component of quasi-bound molecules. Using a variational procedure to find the equation of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 George E. Cragg , Arthur K. Kerman

We study bosonic atoms near a Feshbach resonance, and predict that in addition to a standard normal and atomic superfluid phases, this system generically exhibits a distinct phase of matter: a molecular superfluid, where molecules are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Leo Radzihovsky , Jae Park , Peter Weichman

We investigate magnetoassociation of ultracold fermionic Feshbach molecules in a mixture of $^{40}$K and $^{87}$Rb atoms, where we can create as many as $7\times 10^4$ $^{40}$K$^{87}$Rb molecules with a conversion efficiency as high as 45%.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-09-12 Tyler D. Cumby , Ruth A. Shewmon , Ming-Guang Hu , John D. Perreault , Deborah S. Jin

We investigate the prospects of controlling charge-exchange in ultracold collisions of heteroisotopic combinations of atoms and ions of the same element. The treatment, readily applicable to alkali or alkanine-earth metals, is illustrated…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-06-26 Marko Gacesa , Robin Côté

We explore the Bose condensed phases of an atomic gas on the molecular side of a Feshbach resonance. In the absence of atom-molecule and molecule-molecule scattering, we show that the atomic condensate is either a saddle point of the free…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Sourish Basu , Erich J. Mueller

We model the formation of stable heteronuclear molecules via pulsed Raman photoassociation of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate near a strong Feshbach resonance, for both counterintuitive and intuitive pulse sequencing. Compared to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-10-14 Matt Mackie , Pierre Phou , Heather Boyce , Mannix Shinn , Lev Katz

With the creation of ultracold atoms and molecules, a new type of chemistry - "resonance" chemistry - emerges: chemical reactions can occur when the energy of colliding atoms and molecules matches a bound state of the combined molecule…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 V. V. Flambaum , J. S. M. Ginges

The atomic Bose gas is studied across a Feshbach resonance, mapping out its phase diagram, and computing its thermodynamics and excitation spectra. It is shown that such a degenerate gas admits two distinct atomic and molecular superfluid…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Leo Radzihovsky , Peter B. Weichman , Jae I. Park

Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is considered under conditions of Feshbach resonance in two-atom collisions due to a coupling of atomic pair and resonant molecular states. The association of condensate atoms can form a molecular BEC, and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir A. Yurovsky

We investigate evolution of the quantum coherence in the ultracold mixture of fermionic atoms and bosonic dimer molecules. Interactions are there experimentally controlled via tuning the external magnetic field. Consequently, the fermionic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Domanski

The dynamics of a generic class of scalar active matter exhibiting a diffusivity edge is studied in a confining potential where the amplitude is governed by a time-dependent protocol. For such non-equilibrium systems, the diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-18 Jonas Berx

We theoretically examine a zero-temperature system of Fermi degenerate atoms coupled to bosonic molecules via collisionless rapid adiabatic passage across a Feshbach resonance, focusing on saturation of the molecular conversion efficiency…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Matt Mackie , Olavi Dannenberg

We consider an ideal gas of Bose and Fermi atoms in a harmonic trap, with a Feshbach resonance in the interspecies atomic scattering that can lead to formation of fermionic molecules. We map out the phase diagram for this three-component…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Morales , N. Nygaard , J. E. Williams , Charles W. Clark

Feshbach scattering resonances are being utilized in atomic gases to explore the entire crossover region from a Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) of composite bosons to a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) of Cooper pairs. Several theoretical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 S. De Palo , M. L. Chiofalo , M. J. Holland , S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans

We analyze the dynamics of a dilute, trapped Bose-condensed atomic gas coupled to a diatomic molecular Bose gas by coherent Raman transitions. This system is shown to result in a new type of `superchemistry', in which giant collective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. J. Heinzen , R. H. Wynar , P. D. Drummond , K. V. Kheruntsyan

Preparation of molecular quantum gas promises novel applications including quantum control of chemical reactions, precision measurements, quantum simulation and quantum information processing. Experimental preparation of colder and denser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-04-29 Zhendong Zhang , Liangchao Chen , Kaixuan Yao , Cheng Chin

We demonstrate complete quantum state transfer of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate to molecular condensate, mediated by solitonic excitations in a cigar shaped mean-field geometry. Starting with a localized solitonic atomic condensate, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-16 Subhrajit Modak , Priyam Das , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

We calculate the phase diagrams for a harmonically trapped ideal gas mixture of fermionic atoms and bosonic molecules in chemical and thermal equilibrium, where the internal energy of the molecules can be adjusted relative to that of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. E. Williams , N. Nygaard , C. W. Clark

We study a quantum Bose-Fermi mixture near a broad Feshbach resonance at zero temperature. Within a quantum field theoretical model a two-step Gaussian approximation allows to capture the main features of the quantum phase diagram. We show…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-11-15 Denis Ludwig , Stefan Floerchinger , Sergej Moroz , Christof Wetterich

We investigate the phase diagram of a two-species Bose-Hubbard model describing atoms and molecules on a lattice, interacting via a Feshbach resonance. We identify a region where the system exhibits an exotic super-Mott phase and regions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-07 Valy G. Rousseau , Peter J. H. Denteneer