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arXiv:cond-mat/0302304 · Physical Review Letters

Many-Body Aspects of Coherent Atom-Molecule Oscillations

R. A. Duine, Henk T. C. Stoof

Published Oct 9, 2003• 30 citations
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Abstract

We study the many-body effects on coherent atom-molecule oscillations by means of an effective quantum field theory that describes Feshbach-resonant interactions in Bose gases in terms of an atom-molecule Hamiltonian. We determine numerically the many-body corrections to the oscillation frequency for various densities of the atomic condensate. We also derive an analytic expression that approximately describes both the density and magnetic-field dependence of this frequency near the resonance. We find excellent agreement with experiment.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.91.150405

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