Ramsey fringes in a Bose-Einstein condensate between atoms and molecules

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作者
Kokkelmans, SJJMF [1 ]
Holland, MJ
机构
[1] Univ Colorado, Joint Inst Lab Astrophys, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[2] Natl Inst Stand & Technol, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
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美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.180401
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
In a recent experiment, a Feshbach scattering resonance was exploited to observe Ramsey fringes in a Rb-85 Bose-Einstein condensate. The oscillation frequency corresponded to the binding energy of the molecular state. We show that the observations are remarkably consistent with predictions of a resonance field theory in which the fringes arise from oscillations between atoms and molecules.
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