François Bardou, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Alain Aspect

Lévy Statistics and Laser Cooling

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Laser cooling of atoms provides an ideal case study for the application of Lévy statistics in a privileged situation where the statistical model can be derived from first principles. This book demonstrates how the most efficient laser cooling techniques can be simply and quantitatively understood in terms of non-ergodic random processes dominated by a few rare events. Lévy statistics are now recognised as the proper tool for analysing many different problems for which standard Gaussian statistics are inadequate. Laser cooling provides a simple example of how Lévy statistics can yield analytic predictions that can be compared to other theoretical approaches and experimental results. The authors of this book are world leaders in the fields of laser cooling and light-atom interactions, and are renowned for their clear presentation. This book will therefore hold much interest for graduate students and researchers in the fields of atomic physics, quantum optics, and statistical physics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9780521808217
• ISBN-10: 0521808219
• Artikelnr.: 34936206

Autorenporträt

François Bardou obtained his Ph.D. in 1995 at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris for his experimental and theoretical studies of laser cooling below the one photon recoil, and was the 1995 winner of the Aimé Cotton prize (Atomic Physics prize of the French Physical Society). He now works at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) where he works on stochastic problems in quantum tunnelling.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Subrecoil laser cooling and anomalous random walks
3. Trapping and recyling. Statistical properties
4. Broad distributions and Lévy statistics: a brief overview
5. Proportion of atoms trapped in quasi-dark states
6. Momentum distribution
7. Physical discussion
8. Tests of the statistical approach
9. Example of application: optimization of the peak of cooled atoms
10. Conclusion
Appendix A. Correspondence of the parameters of the statistical models with atomic and laser parameters
Appendix B. The Doppler case
Appendix C. The special case mu = 1.