Phys. Rev. A 72, 063625 (2005) [5 pages]Dissociation dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate of moleculesReceived 25 February 2005; published 29 December 2005 An unstable condensate of diatomic molecules will coherently disassociate into correlated pairs of atoms. This dissociation process exhibits very rich quantum dynamics depending on the quantum statistics of the constituent atoms. We show that in the case of bosonic atoms Bose enhancement can lead to stimulated dissociation, whereas, in the case of fermions Pauli blocking of the available states and a buildup of coherence between molecules and atom pairs can give rise to incomplete dissociation of the molecules and transient association-dissociation oscillations. © 2005 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.72.063625
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.72.063625
PACS:
03.75.Kk, 03.75.Ss, 05.30.Jp, 05.30.Fk
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