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Subrecoil laser cooling and Lévy flights

Bardou, F., Bouchaud, J. P., Emile, O., Aspect, A., Cohen-Tannoudji, C.·1994·Physical Review Letters

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Anomalous diffusion processes, dominated by rare events, are shown to exist and to play a central role in certain subrecoil laser cooling schemes. We present a new statistical analysis of these processes, in terms of L\'evy flights, which provides a precise analytical description of the cooled atoms in the long time limit, where the standard methods of quantum optics are inappropriate. These analytical predictions are quantitatively checked by comparison with the results of quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the cooling process at intermediate times.

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Authors
Bardou, F., Bouchaud, J. P., Emile, O., Aspect, A., & Cohen-Tannoudji, C.
Venue
Physical Review Letters
Published
1994-01-10
Volume
72
Issue
2
Pages
203-206
ISSN
0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
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W2040928369
Cited by
216
References
1
FWCI
12.21
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Bardou, F., Bouchaud, J. P., Emile, O., Aspect, A., & Cohen-Tannoudji, C. (1994). Subrecoil laser cooling and Lévy flights. Physical Review Letters. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.72.203

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