Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 090403 (2002) [4 pages]Rate Limit for Photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate |
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Juha Javanainen1 and Matt Mackie2
1Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3046
2Helsinki Institute of Physics, PL 64, FIN-00014 Helsingin yliopisto, Finland
Received 21 August 2001; published 13 February 2002
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 ρ and mass m, the limit is approximately 6ħρ2/3/m.
©2002 The American Physical Society
URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v88/e090403
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.090403
PACS: 03.75.Fi, 03.65.Nk
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