Laser cooling of single trapped atoms to the ground state: a dark state in position space

Preprint

13 October 1997

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.quant-ph/9710034

Abstract

We propose a scheme that allows to laser cool trapped atoms to the ground state of a one-dimensional confining potential. The scheme is based on the creation of a dark state by designing the laser profile, so that the hottest atoms are coherently pumped to another internal level, and then repumped back. The scheme works beyond the Lamb-Dicke limit. We present results of a full quantum treatment for a one-dimensional model.

Keywords

SINGLE TRAPPED
TRAPPED ATOMS
LASER COOL
DARK STATE
STATE
DICKE

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Version 1, 1997-10-13, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review A, 57 (4), 2909.

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