Introduction to light forces, atom cooling, and atom trapping
atom-ph
2015-06-24 v1 Atomic Physics
Abstract
This paper introduces and reviews light forces, atom cooling and atom trapping. The emphasis is on the physics of the basic processes. In discussing conservative forces the semi-classical dressed states are used rather than the usual quantized field dressed states.
Cite
@article{arxiv.atom-ph/9510004,
title = {Introduction to light forces, atom cooling, and atom trapping},
author = {Craig Savage},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:atom-ph/9510004},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
12 pages, Latex, 7 Postscript figures