title: Creation of a molecular condensate by dynamically melting a Mott insulator.
abstract: We propose the creation of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate by loading an atomic condensate into an optical lattice and driving it into a Mott insulator with exactly two atoms per site. Molecules in a Mott insulator state are then created under well defined conditions by photoassociation with essentially unit efficiency. Finally, the Mott insulator is melted and a superfluid state of the molecules is created. We study the dynamics of this process and photoassociation of tightly trapped atoms.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jaksch
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Venturi
authors.forename: J I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Cirac
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zoller