A cooling scheme for trapped atoms is proposed, which combines cavity-enhanced scattering and electromagnetically induced transparency. The cooling dynamics exploits a three-photon resonance, which combines laser and cavity excitations. It is shown that relatively fast ground-state cooling can be achieved in the Lamb-Dicke regime and for large cooperativity. Efficient ground-state cooling is found for parameters of ongoing experiments.
@article{arxiv.1109.1666,
title = {Cavity cooling of a trapped atom using Electromagnetically-Induced Transparency},
author = {Marc Bienert and Giovanna Morigi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.1666},
year = {2012}
}