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Creation of a molecular condensate by dynamically melting a Mott-insulator

D. Jaksch, V. Venturi, J. I. Cirac, C. J. Williams, P. Zoller

cond-mat.softarXiv:cond-mat/0204137

Abstract

We propose creation of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) by loading an atomic BEC into an optical lattice and driving it into a Mott insulator (MI) with exactly two atoms per site. Molecules in a MI state are then created under well defined conditions by photoassociation with essentially unit efficiency. Finally, the MI is melted and a superfluid state of the molecules is created. We study the dynamics of this process and photoassociation of tightly trapped atoms.

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