Optimizing the catching of atoms or molecules in two-dimensional traps
Quantum Physics
2014-03-25 v2 Atomic Physics
Abstract
Single-photon cooling is a recently introduced method to cool atoms and molecules for which standard methods might not be applicable. We numerically examine this method in a two-dimensional wedge trap as well as in a two-dimensional harmonic trap. An element of the method is an optical dipole box trapping atoms irreversibly. We show that the cooling efficiency of the single-photon method can be improved by optimizing the trajectory of this optical dipole box.
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@article{arxiv.1204.0352,
title = {Optimizing the catching of atoms or molecules in two-dimensional traps},
author = {V. P. Singh and A. Ruschhaupt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.0352},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
8 pages, 11 figures, improved version with corrected typos etc