Rate limit for photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein condensate

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作者：

Javanainen, J ^{[1
]}

Mackie, M

机构：

[1] Univ Connecticut, Dept Phys, Storrs, CT 06269 USA

[2] Univ Helsinki, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2002年 / 88卷 / 09期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.090403

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

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 (h) over bar rho(2/3)/m.

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