2006/11/30 by Lu Zhou, Weiping Zhang, Hong Y. Ling +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Strong Light-Matter Interactions #cond-mat.mes-hall #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.75.043603
published as Phys. Rev. A 75, 043603 (2007) · 7 pages, 4 figures
openalex publication_date 2007/04/03 · arxiv created 2007/04/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study the coherent association of a two-species atomic condensate into a condensate of heteronuclear diatomic molecules, using both a semiclassical treatment and a quantum mechanical approach. The differences and connections between the two approaches are examined. We show that, in this coupled nonlinear atom-molecule system, the population difference between the two atomic species plays a significant role in the ground-state stability properties as well as in coherent population oscillation dynamics.