Influence of nearly resonant light on the scattering length in low-temperature atomic gases

Details Influence of nearly resonant light on the scattering length in low-temperature atomic gases Influence of nearly resonant light on the scattering length in low-temperature atomic gases

1996-05-24

arxiv.org/abs/atom-ph/9605008v1

Physics

Atomic Physics

12 pages, 1 Postscript figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.2913

We develop the idea of manipulating the scattering length $a$ in low-temperature atomic gases by using nearly resonant light. As found, if the incident light is close to resonance with one of the bound $p$ levels of electronically excited molecule, then virtual radiative transitions of a pair of interacting atoms to this level can significantly change the value and even reverse the sign of $a$. The decay of the gas due to photon recoil, resulting from the scattering of light by single atoms, and due to photoassociation can be minimized by selecting the frequency detuning and the Rabi frequency. Our calculations show the feasibility of optical manipulations of trapped Bose condensates through a light-induced change in the mean field interaction between atoms, which is illustrated for $^7$Li.

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