2008/09/24 by Magnus Ögren, C. M. Savage, K. V. Kheruntsyan
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Strong Light-Matter Interactions #cond-mat.other
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.79.043624
published as Phys. Rev. A 79, 043624 (2009) · Fixed scrambled reference list
arxiv created 2008/09/24 · openalex publication_date 2009/04/23 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Ultracold clouds of dimeric molecules can dissociate into quantum mechanically correlated constituent atoms that are either both bosons or both fermions. We theoretically model the dissociation of two-dimensional anisotropic molecular condensates for which this difference manifests as complementary geometric structures of the dissociated atoms. Atomic bosons are preferentially emitted along the long axis of the molecular condensate, while atomic fermions are preferentially emitted along the short axis. This anisotropy potentially simplifies the measurement of correlations between the atoms through relative number squeezing.