Lévy Statistics and Laser Cooling: How Rare Events Bring Atoms to Rest

ISBN-13: 9780521004220 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 214 str.

Francois Bardou

Opis

This is a book about laser cooling, a new research field with many potential applications. The authors present an original approach, using the tools and concepts of statistical physics. A new understanding of laser cooling, both intuitive and quantitative, is obtained. The volume also comprises a case study allowing non-Gaussian (Levy) statistics, a technique being used more frequently in many different fields.

Recenzje

'… hard to beat for insight and conceptual clarity.' New Scientist

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Subrecoil laser cooling and anomalous random walks; 3. Trapping and recyling. Statistical properties; 4. Broad distributions and Lévy statistics: a brief overview; 5. Proportion of atoms trapped in quasi-dark states; 6. Momentum distribution; 7. Physical discussion; 8. Tests of the statistical approach; 9. Example of application: optimization of the peak of cooled atoms; 10. Conclusion; Appendix A. Correspondence of the parameters of the statistical models with atomic and laser parameters; Appendix B. The Doppler case; Appendix C. The special case mu = 1.