Cooling of atoms in colored vacua
- 1 April 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 47 (4) , 3385-3389
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.47.3385
Abstract
We study light-induced mechanical forces that act on atoms interacting with colored photon reservoirs. An exact treatment to calculate the forces, based on the numerical computation of a hierarchy of correlation functions, is presented. We show that such forces may be significantly larger than that in free space. Our numerical results confirm and extend a previously existing simplified model to describe such forces.Keywords
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