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Creation of a Molecular Condensate by Dynamically Melting a Mott Insulator

Year: 2002

Type: article

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

Source: Physical Review Letters

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.89.040402

Authors: D. Jaksch, V. Venturi, J. I. Cirac, C. J. Williams, P. Zoller

Institutions: Universität Innsbruck, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

Language: English

Topic: Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates

Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1965649323

FWCI: 8.925

Cites: 17

Cited by: 208

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