Rogue decoherence in the formation of a macroscopic atom-molecule superposition

Details Rogue decoherence in the formation of a macroscopic atom-molecule superposition Rogue decoherence in the formation of a macroscopic atom-molecule superposition

2006-07-09

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0607075v1

Phys. Rev. A 74, 053601 (2006).

Physics

Atomic Physics

10 pages, 4 figures, 46+ references; submitted to PRA

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.74.053601

We theoretically examine two-color photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein condensate, focusing on the role of rogue decoherence in the formation of macroscopic atom-molecule superpositions. Rogue dissociation occurs when two zero-momentum condensate atoms are photoassociated into a molecule, which then dissociates into a pair of atoms of equal-and-opposite momentum, instead of dissociating back to the zero-momentum condensate. As a source of decoherence that may damp quantum correlations in the condensates, rogue dissociation is an obstacle to the formation of a macroscopic atom-molecule superposition. We study rogue decoherence in a setup which, without decoherence, yields a macroscopic atom-molecule superposition, and find that the most favorable conditions for said superposition are a density ~ 1e12 atoms per cc and temperature ~ 1e-10.

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