Braaten Eric, Hammer H-W, Kusunoki M
Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2003 May 2;90(17):170402. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.170402. Epub 2003 Apr 28.
Recent experiments with Bose-Einstein condensates of 85Rb atoms near a Feshbach resonance have produced evidence for a condensate of diatomic molecules coexisting with the atom condensate. It should also be possible to create condensates of the triatomic molecules predicted by Efimov coexisting with the atom and dimer condensates. The smoking gun for the trimer condensate would be oscillatory dependence of observables on the binding energy of the trimer. It may also be possible to deduce the existence of the trimer condensate from the spectra of the bursts of atoms and dimers created in the disappearance of the trimers.
最近对处于费什巴赫共振附近的85Rb原子玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体进行的实验,已经产生了双原子分子凝聚体与原子凝聚体共存的证据。创造出由埃菲莫夫预测的三原子分子凝聚体并使其与原子和二聚体凝聚体共存,应该也是可行的。三原子凝聚体的确凿证据将是可观测物对三原子结合能的振荡依赖性。从三原子消失时产生的原子和二聚体爆发光谱中,也有可能推断出三原子凝聚体的存在。