Rate Limit for Photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate

2001/08/22 by Juha Javanainen, Matt Mackie · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #cond-mat.soft #physics.atom-ph #physics.chem-ph #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.88.090403

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 090403 (2002). · 5 pgs, 18 refs., 3 figs., submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

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Abstract

We simulate numerically the photodissociation of molecules into noncondensate atom pairs that accompanies photoassociation of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate into a molecular condensate. Such rogue photodissociation sets a limit on the achievable rate of photoassociation. Given the atom density rho and mass m, the limit is approximately 6(planck)rho(2/3)/m.

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