Trapping and cooling of atoms in a vacuum perturbed in a frequency-dependent manner
- 23 September 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 67 (13) , 1723-1726
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.67.1723
Abstract
We show that light-induced mechanical forces that act on atoms may be significantly enhanced and acquire novel physical character when the electromagnetic reservoir which mediates the atomic relaxation is colored (i.e., frequency dependent).Keywords
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