@phdthesis{2094,
  author = {M. Olsen},
  title = {Experiments with Feshbach molecules in a Bose-Fermi mixture},
  abstract = {<p>In this thesis, I present studies of the creation of ultracold heteronuclear molecules from a dilute gas mixture of 87Rb and 40K. Using a Fano-Feshbach resonance, atom pairs are associated into molecules via time-dependent magnetic fields. Slow magnetic-field sweeps are used to make large samples of highly vibrationally excited KRb molecules, while rapid magnetic-field pulses are used to create quantum superpositions of atom and molecule states. Rabi- and Ramsey-type experiments demonstrate coherent oscillations between atoms and molecules. This new type of quantum superposition involves particles of different statistics (i.e., bosons and fermions) and demonstrates atom-molecule coherence without a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). These atom-molecule oscillations may provide a unique way to probe the many-body behavior of a strongly interacting Bose-Fermi mixture.</p>},
  year = {2008},
  publisher = {University of Colorado Boulder},
  address = {Boulder},
}