Observation of Molecules Produced from a Bose-Einstein Condensate
Observation of Molecules Produced from a Bose-Einstein Condensate
Molecules are created from a Bose-Einstein condensate of atomic 87Rb using a Feshbach resonance. A Stern-Gerlach field is applied, in order to spatially separate the molecules from the remaining atoms. For detection, the molecules are converted back into atoms, again using the Feshbach resonance. The measured position of the molecules …