Published May 1, 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

Stability of atomic-molecular coherent states of hybrid Bose-Einstein condensates

  • 1. Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, PO Box 653, Beer-Sheva, 84105 (Israel)
  • 2. Nonlinear Physics Centre and Australian Centre for Quantum Atom Optics, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 (Australia)

Description

We study the stability of coherent atomic-molecular states of hybrid Bose-Einstein condensates in the framework of the parametrically coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations with a weak 'short-correlated' noise, also taking into account the self-interaction effects described by the cubic nonlinearity. We show that the stationary states of the hybrid atomic-molecular condensates are much more robust against the effect of noise than the condensate in the critical regime, describing a complete transformation of the atomic fraction into a molecular condensate, where instability develops essentially faster, with the characteristic time proportional to the logarithm of the noise amplitude

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Journal Title
Journal of Optics. B, Quantum and Semiclassical Optics (Print)
Journal Volume
7
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 151-155
ISSN
1464-4266