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The straightforward application of energy and linear momentum conservation to the absorption/emission of photons by atoms allows to establish the essential features of laser cooling of two levels atoms at low laser intensities. The lowest…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-09-14 Giuseppe Giuliani

To achieve Bose-Einstein condensation, one may implement evaporative cooling by dynamically regulating the power of laser beams forming the optical dipole trap. We propose and experimentally demonstrate a protocol of Bayesian optimization…

Optically trapped dielectric objects are well suited for reaching the quantum regime of their center of mass motion in an ultra-high vacuum environment. We show that ground state cooling of an optically trapped nanosphere is achievable when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Gambhir Ranjit , Cris Montoya , Andrew A. Geraci

Chemical reactions can be surprisingly efficient at ultracold temperatures ( < 1mK) due to the wave nature of atoms and molecules. The study of reactions in the ultracold regime is a new research frontier enabled by cooling and trapping…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-01-16 Lee R. Liu , Jessie T. Zhang , Yichao Yu , Nicholas R. Hutzler , Yu Liu , Till Rosenband , Kang-Kuen Ni

We developed a high-power laser system at a wavelength of 399 nm for laser cooling of ytterbium atoms with ultraviolet laser diodes. The system is composed of an external cavity laser diode providing frequency stabilized output at a power…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Toshiyuki Hosoya , Martin Miranda , Ryotaro Inoue , Mikio Kozuma

We study the laser cooling of one atom in an harmonic trap beyond the Lamb-Dicke regime. By using sequences of laser pulses of different detunings we show that the atom can be confined into just one state of the trap, either the ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Luis Santos , Maciej Lewenstein

With the emergence in the next few years of a new breed of high power laser facilities, it is becoming increasingly important to understand how interacting with intense laser pulses affects the bulk properties of a relativistic electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Samuel R. Yoffe , Yevgen Kravets , Adam Noble , Dino A. Jaroszynski

In work is considered average transverse dynamics of an electron beam in the autoresonant laser. It is shown, that in approach of the given external electromagnetic wave (small gain free electron laser) transverse emittance of a beam of the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. V. Tumanian

A pulsed cooling scheme for optomechanical systems is presented that is capable of cooling at much faster rates, shorter overall cooling times, and for a wider set of experimental scenarios than is possible by conventional methods. The…

We propose an experimental scheme for performing sensitive, high-precision laser spectroscopy studies on fast exotic isotopes. By inducing a step-wise resonant ionization of the atoms travelling inside an electric field and subsequently…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-03-04 Silviu-Marian Udrescu , Diego Alejandro Torres , Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz

Relativistic positron beams are required for fundamental research in nonlinear strong field QED, plasma physics, and laboratory astrophysics. Positrons are difficult to create and manipulate due to their short lifetime, and their energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 B. Martinez , B. Barbosa , M. Vranic

We demonstrate laser cooling of barium monofluoride (138BaF) molecules. We use serrodynes to synthesize time-sequenced optical spectra that can be precisely tailored to the hyperfine structure of this heaviest non-radioactive alkaline earth…

We perform a quantitative analysis of the cooling dynamics of three-level atomic systems interacting with two distinct lasers. Employing sparse-matrix techniques, we find numerical solutions to the fully quantized master equation in steady…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Josh W. Dunn , J. W. Thomsen , Chris H. Greene , Flavio C. Cruz

Only bosonic molecular species have been directly laser cooled to date, primarily due to an abundance of bosonic isotopes in nature and to their simpler hyperfine structure. Fermionic molecules provide new opportunities for ultracold…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Jinyu Dai , Qi Sun , Benjamin C. Riley , Debayan Mitra , Tanya Zelevinsky

Positronium decay into a muon-antimuon pair by virtue of the interaction with a superintense laser field of linear polarization is considered. The minimum laser intensity required amounts to a few 10^22 W/cm^2 in the near-infrared frequency…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Carsten Müller , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

Despite the enormous technological interest in micro and nanolasers, surprisingly, no class-B quantum density-matrix model is available to date, capable of accurately describing coherence and photon correlations within a unified theory. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-28 Alejandro M. Yacomotti , Zakari Denis , Alberto Biella , Cristiano Ciuti

We present a computational study of the laser-driven quantum dynamics of positronium (Ps), PsH, and PsCl at the time-dependent Hartree-Fock level of theory. To eliminate finite-basis effects and to properly capture continuum dynamics, we…

A quantum model of Bose-Einstein condensation based on processes involving polaritons excited in an intracavity absorbing cell with resonance atoms, which is manifested in the spectral characteristics of the system, is considered. It is…

We present a microscopic laser model for many atoms coupled to a single cavity mode, including the light forces resulting from atom-field momentum exchange. Within a semiclassical description, we solve the equations for atomic motion and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-18 Thomas Salzburger Helmut Ritsch

We report the realization of Bose-Einstein condensates of 39K atoms without the aid of an additional atomic coolant. Our route to Bose-Einstein condensation comprises Sub Doppler laser cooling of large atomic clouds with more than 10^10…