Ground state laser cooling using electromagnetically induced transparency

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1 May 2000

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

Abstract

A laser cooling method for trapped atoms is described which achieves ground state cooling by exploiting quantum interference of dipole transitions in a Lambda-shaped arrangement of atomic levels. The scheme is significantly more efficient, yet technically simpler than existing methods of sideband cooling. We study the full quantum mechanical model of the cooling process in one dimension and compare the results to a rate equation description.

Keywords

ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED
USING ELECTROMAGNETICALLY
INDUCED TRANSPARENCY
COOLING METHOD
LASER COOLING
GROUND STATE
STATE LASER
ATOMS

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Published version: Physical Review Letters, 85 (21), 4458.

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