Atoms and molecules in lattices: condensates built on a shared vacuum
arXiv:cond-mat/0210324 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.160406
Abstract
In optical lattices where each site is occupied in its lowest energy state by a superposition of zero, one and two atoms, one can in a controllable manner convert the atomic pair into a molecule while retaining the vacuum and one-atom amplitudes. The microscopic quantum coherence on each site between the vacuum and the single molecule component leads to a macroscopically populated molecular condensate when the lattice is removed.
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