Lévy statistics and laser cooling: how rare events bring atoms to rest
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2002
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-187) and indexes
Laser cooling -- - Subrecoil laser cooling -- - Subrecoil cooling and Levy statistics -- - Subrecoil laser cooling and anomalous random walks -- - Standard laser cooling: friction forces and the recoil limit -- - Friction forces and cooling -- - The recoil limit -- - Laser cooling based on inhomogeneous random walks in momentum space -- - Physical mechanism -- - How to create an inhomogeneous random walk -- - Expected cooling properties -- - Quantum description of subrecoil laser cooling -- - Wave nature of atomic motion -- - Difficulties of the standard quantum treatment -- - Quantum jump description. The delay function -- - Simulation of the atomic momentum stochastic evolution -- - Generalization. Stochastic wave functions and random walks in Hilbert space -- - From quantum optics to classical random walks -- - Fictitious classical particle associated with the quantum random walk -- - Simplified jump rate -- - Trapping and recycling. Statistical properties -- - Trapping and recycling regions -- - Models of inhomogeneous random walks -- - Friction -- - Trapping region -- - Recycling region -- - Momentum jumps -- - Probability distribution of the trapping times -- - One-dimensional quadratic jump rate -- - Generalization to higher dimensions -- - Generalization to a non-quadratic jump rate -- - Probability distribution of the recycling times -- - Presentation of the problem: first return time in Brownian motion -- - The unconfined model in one dimension -- - The Doppler model in one dimension -- - The confined model: random walk with walls -- - Broad distributions and Levy statistics: a brief overview
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ISBN:0511016018
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