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arXiv:cond-mat/0012372 · Physical Review A

Existence and stability of coupled atomic-molecular Bose-Einstein condensates

B. J. Cusack, Tristram J. Alexander, Elena A. Ostrovskaya, Yuri S. Kivshar

Published Dec 14, 2001• 51 citations
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Abstract

We analyze a mean-field model of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate parametrically coupled to a molecular condensate via a Raman photoassociation process. We show that an interplay of nonlinear interspecies and intraspecies interactions leads to the formation of mutually trapped states of a hybrid condensate, which are spatially localized and dynamically stable even without a trap.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.65.013609

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