Superposition of macroscopic numbers of atoms and molecules

Details Superposition of macroscopic numbers of atoms and molecules Superposition of macroscopic numbers of atoms and molecules

2001-03-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0103437v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 160403 (2001).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 2 figs, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.160403

We theoretically examine photoassociation of a non-ideal Bose-Einstein condensate, focusing on evidence for a macroscopic superposition of atoms and molecules. This problem raises an interest because, rather than two states of a given object, an atom-molecule system is a seemingly impossible macroscopic superposition of different objects. Nevertheless, photoassociation enables coherent intraparticle conversion, and we thereby propose a viable scheme for creating a superposition of a macroscopic number of atoms with a macroscopic number of molecules.

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