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Article Dans Une Revue The European Physical Journal D : Atomic, molecular, optical and plasma physics Année : 2010

Quadratic-nonlinear Landau-Zener transition for association of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate with inter-particle elastic interactions included

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We study the strong coupling limit of a quadratic-nonlinear Landau-Zener problem for coherent photo- and magneto-association of cold atoms taking into account the atom-atom, atom-molecule, and molecule-molecule elastic scattering. Using an exact third-order nonlinear differential equation for the molecular state probability, we develop a variational approach which enables us to construct a highly accurate and simple analytic approximation describing the time dynamics of the coupled atom-molecule system. We show that the approximation describing time evolution of the molecular state probability can be written as a sum of two distinct terms; the first one, being a solution to a limit first-order nonlinear equation, effectively describes the process of the molecule formation while the second one, being a scaled solution to the linear Landau-Zener problem (but now with negative effective Landau-Zener parameter as long as the strong coupling regime is considered), corresponds to the remaining oscillations which come up when the process of molecule formation is over.

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hal-00449494 , version 1 (21-01-2010)

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A.M. Ishkhanyan, R.S. Sokhoyan, K.A. Suominen, Claude Leroy, Hans-Rudolf Jauslin. Quadratic-nonlinear Landau-Zener transition for association of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate with inter-particle elastic interactions included. The European Physical Journal D : Atomic, molecular, optical and plasma physics, 2010, 56, pp.421-429. ⟨10.1140/epjd/e2009-00310-7⟩. ⟨hal-00449494⟩
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