Cavity QED: Adiabatic atomic cooling in cavities and evaluation of a technique for atomic homodyne detection of cotangent states.

Part I. We analyze how a decaying cavity field can lead to significant atomic cooling. This cooling can be intuitively understood by invoking the adiabatic theorem to characterize the dynamics of an atom dressed by a classical field. We find numerically that cooling can proceed well into the quantum...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zaugg, Thomas Collett.
Other Authors: Meystre, Pierre
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 1994
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186729