Chinese Physics Letters

Dynamics of Coherent Two-Colour Photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Ying Wu, Xiaoxue Yang

Published Oct 1, 2002• 15 citations

Abstract

It is shown that the semiclassical description of the coherent two-colour photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein condensate can be put into the canonical Hamiltonian formalism. This considerably simplifies the investigation of the corresponding steady states and their quantum fluctuations, and corresponding dynamics.

DOI: 10.1088/0256-307x/19/10/304

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