Cooling and localization of atoms in laser-induced potential wells
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- 1 June 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 49 (6) , 4876-4887
Abstract
We discuss theoretically the cooling and localization of atoms in deep potentials induced by a far-off-resonant standing-wave laser. For a two-level atom cooling occurs via a Sisyphus mechanism. For a Λ system we discuss a Raman cooling scheme similar to the one proposed for laser cooling in ion traps.Keywords
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