COOLING AND LOCALIZATION OF ATOMS IN LASER-INDUCED POTENTIAL WELLS

Authors
TAIEB R DUM R CIRAC JI MARTE P ZOLLER P
Citation
R. Taieb et al., COOLING AND LOCALIZATION OF ATOMS IN LASER-INDUCED POTENTIAL WELLS, Physical review. A, 49(6), 1994, pp. 4876-4887
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review. A → ACNP
ISSN journal
10502947
Volume
49
Issue
6
Year of publication
1994
Pages
4876 - 4887
Database
ISI
SICI code
1050-2947(1994)49:6<4876:CALOAI>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
We discuss theoretically the cooling and localization of atoms in deep potentials induced by a far-off-resonant standing-wave laser. For a t wo-level atom cooling occurs via a Sisyphus mechanism. For a LAMBDA sy stem we discuss a Raman cooling scheme similar to the one proposed for laser cooling in ion traps.