Pair dynamics in the formation of molecules in a Bose-Einstein condensate
arXiv:cond-mat/0303055 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.68.033612
Abstract
We revisit the mean-field treatment of photoassociation and Feshbach resonances in a Bose-Einstein condensate previously used by various authors. Generalizing the Cherny and Shanenko approach (Phys. Rev. E 62, 1646-59 (2000) ) where the finite size of the potentials is explicitly introduced, we develop a two-channel model for a mixed atomic-molecular condensate. Besides the individual dynamics of the condensed and non-condensed atoms, the model also takes into account their pair dynamics by means of pair wave functions. We show that the resulting set of coupled equations can be reduced to the usual coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations when the time scale of the pair dynamics is short compared to that of the individual dynamics. Such time scales are discussed in the case of typical photoassociation experiments with cw lasers. We show that the individual dynamics plays a minor role, demonstrating the validity of the rates predicted by the usual models describing photoassociation in a nondegenerate gas.
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