Inhibiting Three-Body Recombination in Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
We discuss the possibility of inhibiting three-body recombination in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates via the application of resonant laser pulses. These pulses result in the periodic change in the phase of the molecular state by , which leads to destructive interference between the decay amplitudes following successive pulses. We show that the decay rate can be reduced by several orders of magnitude under realistic conditions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0310510,
title = {Inhibiting Three-Body Recombination in Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates},
author = {Chris P. Search and Weiping Zhang and Pierre Meystre},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0310510},
year = {2009}
}