Atom cooling by non-adiabatic expansion

Details Atom cooling by non-adiabatic expansion Atom cooling by non-adiabatic expansion

2009-08-11

arxiv.org/abs/0908.1483v1

Phys. Rev. A 80, 063421 (2009)

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.80.063421

Motivated by the recent discovery that a reflecting wall moving with a square-root in time trajectory behaves as a universal stopper of classical particles regardless of their initial velocities, we compare linear in time and square-root in time expansions of a box to achieve efficient atom cooling. For the quantum single-atom wavefunctions studied the square-root in time expansion presents important advantages: asymptotically it leads to zero average energy whereas any linear in time (constant box-wall velocity) expansion leaves a non-zero residual energy, except in the limit of an infinitely slow expansion. For finite final times and box lengths we set a number of bounds and cooling principles which again confirm the superior performance of the square-root in time expansion, even more clearly for increasing excitation of the initial state. Breakdown of adiabaticity is generally fatal for cooling with the linear expansion but not so with the square-root expansion.

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