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Inelastic scattering of atoms in a double well
Fecha
2011Registro en:
PHYSICAL REVIEW A, v.83, n.4, 2011
1050-2947
10.1103/PhysRevA.83.043615
Autor
ANNIBALE, Éder Santana
FIALKO, O.
ZIEGLER, K.
Institución
Resumen
We study a mixture of two light spin-1/2 fermionic atoms and two heavy atoms in a double-well potential. Inelastic scattering processes between both atomic species excite the heavy atoms and renormalize the tunneling rate and the interaction of the light atoms (polaron effect). The effective interaction of the light atoms changes its sign and becomes attractive for strong inelastic scattering. This is accompanied by a crossing of the energy levels from singly occupied sites at weak inelastic scattering to a doubly occupied and an empty site for stronger inelastic scattering. We are able to identify the polaron effect and the level crossing in the quantum dynamics.