Thermal equilibrium and efficient evaporation of an ultracold atom-molecule mixture

被引：32

作者：

Chin, C ^{[1
]}

Grimm, R ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Innsbruck, Inst Expt Phys, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 2004年 / 69卷 / 03期

基金：

奥地利科学基金会;

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevA.69.033612

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We derive the equilibrium conditions for a thermal atom-molecule mixture near a Feshbach resonance. Under the assumption of low collisional loss, thermodynamical properties are calculated and compared to the measurements of a recent experiment on thermal fermionic lithium atoms. We discuss and evaluate possible collision mechanisms which can lead to atom-molecule conversion. Finally, we propose a novel evaporative cooling scheme to efficiently cool the molecules toward Bose-Einstein condensation.

引用

页码：033612 / 1

页数：6

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