Cooling to the Ground State of Axial Motion for One Atom Strongly Coupled to an Optical Cavity

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2006-06-13

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0606104v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.083602

Localization to the ground state of axial motion is demonstrated for a single, trapped atom strongly coupled to the field of a high finesse optical resonator. The axial atomic motion is cooled by way of coherent Raman transitions on the red vibrational sideband. An efficient state detection scheme enabled by strong coupling in cavity QED is used to record the Raman spectrum, from which the state of atomic motion is inferred. We find that the lowest vibrational level of the axial potential with zero-point energy 13uK is occupied with probability P0~0.95.

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