Abstract
Coherent conversion of an atomic to a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a first step towards'superchemistry’,1 which is the atom optics analog of frequency conversion in nonlinear optics. A number of studies of this have shown that direct conversion via Raman photo-association appears feasible,2 based on stimulated free- bound and bound-bound transitions in the presence of two laser fields and Here pairs of atoms from the two-atom continuum are transferred—via an excited bound molecular state—to a bound molecular state of lower energy.
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