Doppler cooling of gallium atoms: 2. Simulation in complex multilevel systems
Atomic Physics
2015-05-19 v1
Abstract
This paper derives a general procedure for the numerical solution of the Lindblad equations that govern the coherences arising from multicoloured light interacting with a multilevel system. A systematic approach to finding the conservative and dissipative terms is derived and applied to the laser cooling of gallium. An improved numerical method is developed to solve the time-dependent master equation and results are presented for transient cooling processes. The method is significantly more robust, efficient and accurate than the standard method and can be applied to a broad range of atomic and molecular systems. Radiation pressure forces and the formation of dynamic dark-states are studied in the gallium isotope 66Ga.
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@article{arxiv.1006.0596,
title = {Doppler cooling of gallium atoms: 2. Simulation in complex multilevel systems},
author = {L Rutherford and I C Lane and J F McCann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.0596},
year = {2015}
}
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15 pages, 8 figures