Phys. Rev. A 69, 043612 (2004) [6 pages]

Landau-Zener problem for trilinear systems

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Artur Ishkhanyan¹, Matt Mackie², Andrew Carmichael³, Phillip L. Gould³, and Juha Javanainen³
¹Engineering Center of Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Ashtarak-2, 378410, Armenia
²Helsinki Institute of Physics, PL 64, FIN-00014 Helsingin yliopisto, Finland
³Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3046, USA

Received 10 December 2002; revised 25 August 2003; published 20 April 2004

We consider a nonlinear version of the Landau-Zener problem, focusing on photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein condensate as a specific example. Contrary to the exponential rate dependence obtained for the linear problem, when the resonance is crossed slowly the no-transition probability is directly proportional to the rate at which the resonance is crossed.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.69.043612

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10.1103/PhysRevA.69.043612

PACS:

03.75.Kk, 02.30.Mv, 34.50.Rk

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Phys. Rev. A 69, 043612 (2004) [6 pages]

Landau-Zener problem for trilinear systems