Atom cooling and trapping by disorder

Details Atom cooling and trapping by disorder Atom cooling and trapping by disorder

1998-05-29

arxiv.org/abs/physics/9805037v1

Phys. Rev. A 58, 3953 (1998)

Physics

Atomic Physics

11 figures (postscript)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.58.3953

We demonstrate the possibility of three-dimensional cooling of neutral atoms by illuminating them with two counterpropagating laser beams of mutually orthogonal linear polarization, where one of the lasers is a speckle field, i.e. a highly disordered but stationary coherent light field. This configuration gives rise to atom cooling in the transverse plane via a Sisyphus cooling mechanism similar to the one known in standard two-dimensional optical lattices formed by several plane laser waves. However, striking differences occur in the spatial diffusion coefficients as well as in local properties of the trapped atoms.

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