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We demonstrate the fast accumulation of Cr atoms in a conservative potential from a magnetically guided atomic beam. Without laser cooling on a cycling transition, a single dissipative step realized by optical pumping allows to load atoms…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-27 Markus Falkenau , Valentin V. Volchkov , Jahn Rührig , Axel Griesmaier , Tilman Pfau

Active atomic clocks are predicted to provide far better short-term stability and robustness against thermal fluctuations than typical feedback-based optical atomic clocks. However, continuous laser operation using an ensemble of clock…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Anna Bychek , Laurin Ostermann , Helmut Ritsch

We show how the dynamics of collisions between cold atoms can be manipulated by a modification of spontaneous emission times. This is achieved by placing the atomic sample in a resonant optical cavity. Spontaneous emission is enhanced by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. I. Kim , R. B. B. Santos , P. Nussenzveig.

Algorithmic cooling shows that it is possible to locally reduce the entropy of a qubit belonging to an isolated ensemble such as nuclear spins in molecules or nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamonds. In the same physical setting, we introduce…

Laser cooling of atomic motion enables a wide variety of technological and scientific explorations using cold atoms. Here we focus on the effect of laser cooling on the photons instead of on the atoms. Specifically, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-24 Chiao-Hsuan Wang , M. J. Gullans , J. V. Porto , William D. Phillips , Jacob M. Taylor

Incorporating optical cavities in ion traps is becoming increasingly important in the development of photonic quantum networks. However, the presence of the cavity can hamper efficient laser cooling of ions because of geometric constraints…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Costas Christoforou , Corentin Pignot , Ezra Kassa , Hiroki Takahashi , Matthias Keller

The semiclassical theory of laser cooling is applied for the analysis of cooling of unbound atoms with the values of the ground and exited state angular moments 1/2 in a one-dimensional nondissipative optical lattice. We show that in the…

Optics · Physics 2011-10-05 N. A. Matveeva , A. V. Taichenachev , A. M. Tumaikin , V. I. Yudin

We discuss the optical loading of a Bose-Einstein condensate in the Thomas-Fermi regime. The condensate is loaded via spontaneous emission from a reservoir of excited-state atoms. By means of a master equation formalism, we discuss the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Floegel , L. Santos , M. Lewenstein

Resolved sideband cooling provides a crucial step in subrecoil cooling the trapped atoms toward their motional ground state, which is essential in atom-based quantum technologies. Here we present an enhanced dark-state sideband cooling in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Chung-Hsien Wang , Yi-Cheng Wang , Chi-Chih Chen , Chun-Che Wang , H. H. Jen

We demonstrate direct evaporative cooling of $^{87}$Rb atoms confined in a dimple trap produced by an atom chip. By changing the two chip currents and two external bias fields, we show theoretically that the trap depth can be lowered in a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Daniel M. Farkas , Kai M. Hudek , Shengwang Du , Dana Z. Anderson

We propose a scheme that allows to coherently extract cold atoms from a reservoir in a deterministic way. The transfer is achieved by means of radiation pulses coupling two atomic states which are object to different trapping conditions. A…

A general scheme for rotational cooling of diatomic heteronuclear molecules is proposed. It uses a superconducting microwave cavity to enhance the spontaneous decay via Purcell effect. Rotational cooling can be induced by sequentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. H. Raymond Ooi

We suggest a protocol for the sympathetic cooling of a molecular asymmetric top rotor co-trapped with laser-cooled atomic ions, based on resonant coupling between the molecular ion's electric dipole moment and a common normal mode of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Monika Leibscher , Alexander Blech , Christiane P. Koch

I discuss the robustness of the pumped cavity dynamics against phase diffusion of the laser and conclude that opto-mechanical cooling has extreme sensitivity compared to laser cooling of atoms. Certain proposals of ground state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-07 Lajos Diósi

A laser cooling method for trapped atoms is described which achieves ground state cooling by exploiting quantum interference in a driven Lambda-shaped arrangement of atomic levels. The scheme is technically simpler than existing methods of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-26 Giovanna Morigi , Juergen Eschner , Christoph H. Keitel

In this paper, we identify a many-particle phonon expectation value $\zeta$ with the ability to induce collective dynamics in a non-interacting atomic gas inside an optical cavity. We then propose to utilise this expectation value to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 Oleg Kim , Prasenjit Deb , Almut Beige

We review state-of-the-art theory and experiment of the motion of cold and ultracold atoms coupled to the radiation field within a high-finesse optical resonator in the dispersive regime of the atom-field interaction with small internal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-04-10 Helmut Ritsch , Peter Domokos , Ferdinand Brennecke , Tilman Esslinger

We investigate theoretically the mechanical effects of light on atoms trapped by an external potential, whose dipole transition couples to the mode of an optical resonator and is driven by a laser. We derive an analytical expression for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefano Zippilli , Giovanna Morigi

A technique is proposed to cool Fermi gases to the regime of quantum degeneracy based on the expected inhibition of spontaneous emission due to the Pauli principle. The reduction of the linewidth for spontaneous emission originates a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-11-22 Roberto Onofrio

We demonstrate that the process of evaporative cooling, as associated with the cooling of atomic gases, can also be employed to condense a system of photons giving rise to coherent properties of the light. The system we study consists of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-07-10 B. T. Seaman , M. J. Holland