Mechanical effects of optical resonators on driven trapped atoms: Ground state cooling in a high finesse cavity Export

@misc{citeulike:1304976, abstract = {We investigate theoretically the mechanical effects of light on atoms trapped by an external potential, whose dipole transition couples to the mode of an optical resonator and is driven by a laser. We derive an analytical expression for the quantum center-of-mass dynamics, which is valid in presence of a tight external potential. This equation has broad validity and allows for a transparent interpretation of the individual scattering processes leading to cooling. We show that the dynamics are a competition of the mechanical effects of the cavity and of the laser photons, which may mutually interfere. We focus onto the good-cavity limit and identify novel cooling schemes, which are based on quantum interference effects and lead to efficient ground state cooling in experimentally accessible parameter regimes.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Zippilli, Stefano and Morigi, Giovanna}, citeulike-article-id = {1304976}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0508075}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0508075}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.72.053408}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2005PhRvA..72e3408Z}, day = {21}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.72.053408}, eprint = {quant-ph/0508075}, keywords = {cavity, resonator, singleatom}, month = {Mar}, posted-at = {2007-05-18 09:22:01}, priority = {2}, title = {Mechanical effects of optical resonators on driven trapped atoms: Ground state cooling in a high finesse cavity}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.72.053408}, year = {2007} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:1304976 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1304976 N2 - We investigate theoretically the mechanical effects of light on atoms trapped by an external potential, whose dipole transition couples to the mode of an optical resonator and is driven by a laser. We derive an analytical expression for the quantum center-of-mass dynamics, which is valid in presence of a tight external potential. This equation has broad validity and allows for a transparent interpretation of the individual scattering processes leading to cooling. We show that the dynamics are a competition of the mechanical effects of the cavity and of the laser photons, which may mutually interfere. We focus onto the good-cavity limit and identify novel cooling schemes, which are based on quantum interference effects and lead to efficient ground state cooling in experimentally accessible parameter regimes. TI - Mechanical effects of optical resonators on driven trapped atoms: Ground state cooling in a high finesse cavity KW - cavity KW - resonator KW - singleatom AU - Zippilli, Stefano AU - Morigi, Giovanna PY - 2007/Mar/21/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.72.053408 ER -