Creation of a Molecular Condensate by Dynamically Melting a Mott Insulator

Published

July 1, 2002

Author(s)

D Jaksch, V Venturi, J I. Cirac, Carl J. Williams, W.H. Zoller

Abstract

We propose creation of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) by loading an atomic BEC into an optical lattice and driving it into a Mott insulator (MI) phase with exactly two atoms per site. Molecules in a MI state are then created under well defined conditions by photoassociation with essentially unit efficiency. Finally, the MI is melted and a superfluid state of the molecules is created. We investigate the dynamics of this process and study the photoassociation of tightly trapped atoms.

Citation

Physical Review Letters

Volume

89

Issue

No. 4

Pub Type

Journals

Keywords

Bose-Einstein Condensation, Bose-Hubard Model, Mott-Insulator state Photoassociation, Quantum phase transition, Raman transitions, superfluid state

Citation

Jaksch, D. , Venturi, V. , Cirac, J. , Williams, C. and Zoller, W. (2002), Creation of a Molecular Condensate by Dynamically Melting a Mott Insulator, Physical Review Letters (Accessed October 17, 2025)