Adiabatic condition for coherent atom–heteronuclear-molecule conversion
Hui Jing, Fanong Zheng, Yurong Jiang, Zhixiang Geng · Physical Review A · 2008
Recently, Pu et al. developed an efficient strategy to find the adiabatic condition of a nonlinear system---i.e., the atom-homonuclear dimer conversion [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 050406 (2007)]. Here, by applying their method, we extend it to study the adiabatic condition of coherent atom--heteronuclear-diatomic- or -triatomic-molecule conversion. The different adiabatic evolutions in creating the homo- or heteronuclear dimers are compared. The impact of the two different reaction paths on the adiabatic conditions in creating the heteronuclear triatomic molecules is also discussed.