The Optimum Fokker-planck Equation for Laser Cooling

K MOLMER

doi:10.1088/0953-4075/27/9/024

The Optimum Fokker-planck Equation for Laser Cooling

K MOLMER

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Abstract

The momentum distribution of laser cooled atoms may be identified approximately by a semiclassical treatment. Among different possibilities we present empirical and analytical arguments for choosing (partial derivative/partial derivative t)omega(p, t) = -(partial derivative/partial derivative p)(F(p)omega(p, t)) + (partial derivative/partial derivative p)(D(p)(partial derivative/partial derivative p)omega(p, t)) as the optimum Fokker-Planck equation for laser cooling, where the mean force and the momentum diffusion coefficients are determined from the solutions of the internal state atomic dynamics.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Volume	27
Issue number	9
Pages (from-to)	1889-1898
Number of pages	10
ISSN	0953-4075
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/27/9/024
Publication status	Published - 14 May 1994
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Intense standing wave
Momentum diffusion
Atomic motion
Polarization gradients
Doppler limit
Dipole force
Fields
Light

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