Laser Cooling and Trapping
Harold J. Metcalf, Peter Van der Straten
Résumé
Laser cooling allows one to slow atoms to roughly the speed of a mosquito and to control their motion with unprecedented precision. This elegant technique, whereby atoms, molecules, and even microscopic beads of glass can be trapped in small regions of free space by beams of light and subsequently moved at will using other beams, has revolutionized many areas of physics. In particular, it provides a useful research tool for the study of individual atoms, for investigating the details of chemical reactions, and even for the study of atomic motion in the quantum domain.. "The book is intended for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students who have some basic knowledge of optics and quantum mechanics.
Table of Contents- Foreword
- Preface
- I Introduction 1
- 1 Review of Quantum Mechanics 3
- 2 The Density Matrix 17
- 3 Force on Two-Level Atoms 29
- 4 Multilevel Atoms 39
- 5 General Properties Concerning Laser Cooling 57
- II Cooling & Trapping 71
- 6 Deceleration of an Atomic Beam 73
- 7 Optical Molasses 87
- 8 Cooling Below the Doppler Limit 99
- 9 The Dipole Force 123
- 10 Magnetic Trapping of Neutral Atoms 137
- 11 Optical Traps for Neutral Atoms 149
- 12 Evaporative Cooling 165
- III Applications 177
- 13 Newtonian Atom Optics and its Applications 179
- 14 Ultra-cold Collisions 199
- 15 deBroglie Wave Optics 219
- 16 Optical Lattices 231
- 17 Bose-Einstein Condensation 241
- 18 Dark States 251
- Appendices 263
- A Notation and Definitions 265
- B Review Articles and Books on Laser Cooling 269
- C Characteristic Data 273
- D Transition Strengths 279
- References 291
- Index 317
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Springer |
| Auteur(s) | Harold J. Metcalf, Peter Van der Straten |
| Parution | 01/03/2001 |
| Nb. de pages | 344 |
| Couverture | Relié |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9780387987286 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-387-98747-7 |
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