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Creation of a Molecular Condensate by Dynamically Melting a Mott Insulator

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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 April 27, 2025)

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Created June 30, 2002, Updated October 12, 2021