Abstract
We demonstrate a method of inducing an optical Feshbach resonance based on a coherent free-bound stimulated Raman transition. In our experiment atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate are exposed to two phase-locked Raman laser beams which couple pairs of colliding atoms to a molecular ground state. By controlling the power and relative detuning of the two laser beams, we can change the atomic scattering length considerably. The dependence of scattering length on these parameters is studied experimentally and modeled theoretically.
1 More- Received 23 September 2004
- Publisher error corrected 11 March 2005
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.71.033403
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Corrections
11 March 2005