Trapped-atom cooling beyond the Lamb-Dicke limit using electromagnetically induced transparency

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Roghani, Maryam ^a   Helm, Hanspeter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MOLECULAR VIBRATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TRANSPARENCY;

LAMB-DICKE LIMIT; RECOIL ENERGY; TRAP OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; TRAPPED-ATOM COOLING;

ELECTRON TRAPS;

EID: 42549109563     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.043418     Document Type: Article

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