Spontaneous recoil effects of optical pumping on trapped atoms

Details Spontaneous recoil effects of optical pumping on trapped atoms Spontaneous recoil effects of optical pumping on trapped atoms

2008-08-08

arxiv.org/abs/0808.1272v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

21 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.78.043412

The recoil effects of spontaneous photon emissions during optical pumping of a trapped three-level atom are exactly calculated. Without resort to the Lamb-Dicke approximation, and considering arbitrary detuning and saturation of the pump laser, the density of recoil shifts in phase space is derived. It is shown that this density is not of Gaussian shape, and that it becomes isotropic in phase space only for a branching ratio corresponding to fluorescence scattering but unfavorable for optical pumping. The dependence of its anisotropy on the laser saturation is discussed in the resonant case, and the mapping of moments of the atom's center-of-mass motion due to the pumping is presented. Moreover, it is shown how optimum parameters for protecting the center-of-mass quantum state from pump-induced disturbance depend on the specific property to be protected.

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