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Two-Body Transients in Coupled Atomic-Molecular BECs
Published
Author(s)
Pascal Naidon, Eite Tiesinga, Paul S. Julienne
Abstract
We discuss the dynamics of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate when pairs of atoms are converted into molecules by single-color photoassociation. Three main regimes are found and it is shown that they can be understood on the basis oftime-dependent two-body theory. In particular, the so-called rogue dissociation regime [Phys. Rev. Lett., 88, 090403 (2002)], which has a density-dependent limit on the photoassociation rate, is identified with a transient regime of the two-atom dynamics exhibiting universal properties. Finally, we illustrate how these regimes could be explored by photoassociating condensates of alkaline-earth atoms.
Naidon, P.
, Tiesinga, E.
and Julienne, P.
(2008),
Two-Body Transients in Coupled Atomic-Molecular BECs, Physical Review Letters
(Accessed June 10, 2023)