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Creation of a Molecular Condensate by Dynamically Melting a Mott Insulator
Published
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 December 4, 2023)