Creation of a molecular condensate by dynamically melting a Mott insulator

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

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Creation of a molecular condensate by dynamically melting a Mott insulator

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Cirac, J. Ignacio
Theory, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Max Planck Society;

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Jaksch, D., Venturi, V., Cirac, J. I., Williams, C. J., & Zoller, P. (2002). Creation of a molecular condensate by dynamically melting a Mott insulator. Physical Review Letters, 89(4): 040402. 040402. Retrieved from http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v89/e040402.

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