RAMAN COOLING OF CESIUM BELOW 3 NK - NEW APPROACH INSPIRED BY LEVY FLIGHT STATISTICS

Authors
REICHEL J BARDOU F BENDAHAN M PEIK E RAND S SALOMON C COHENTANNOUDJI C
Citation
J. Reichel et al., RAMAN COOLING OF CESIUM BELOW 3 NK - NEW APPROACH INSPIRED BY LEVY FLIGHT STATISTICS, Physical review letters, 75(25), 1995, pp. 4575-4578
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
75
Issue
25
Year of publication
1995
Pages
4575 - 4578
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1995)75:25<4575:RCOCB3>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
We present a new approach to optimize subrecoil Raman cooling, based o n Levy flight statistics. It shows that simple time sequences using sq uare pulses can lead to very efficient cooling. We tested the method i n a one-dimensional experiment with cesium atoms and obtained temperat ures below 3 nK, less than 1/70 of the single photon recoil temperatur e.