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Lévy statistics and laser cooling : how rare events bring atoms to rest /
A graduate-level book for researchers in atomic physics, quantum optics, and statistical physics, written by world leaders in the fields of laser cooling and light-atom interactions. They demonstrate how Lvy statistics can be applied to problems where Gaussian statistics are inadequate, using laser...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Laser cooling
- Subrecoil laser cooling
- Subrecoil cooling and Levy statistics
- Subrecoil laser cooling and anomalous random walks
- Standard laser cooling: friction forces and the recoil limit
- Friction forces and cooling
- The recoil limit
- Laser cooling based on inhomogeneous random walks in momentum space
- Physical mechanism
- How to create an inhomogeneous random walk
- Expected cooling properties
- Quantum description of subrecoil laser cooling
- Wave nature of atomic motion
- Difficulties of the standard quantum treatment
- Quantum jump description. The delay function
- Simulation of the atomic momentum stochastic evolution
- Generalization. Stochastic wave functions and random walks in Hilbert space
- From quantum optics to classical random walks
- Fictitious classical particle associated with the quantum random walk
- Simplified jump rate
- Trapping and recycling. Statistical properties
- Trapping and recycling regions
- Models of inhomogeneous random walks
- Friction
- Trapping region
- Recycling region
- Momentum jumps
- Probability distribution of the trapping times
- One-dimensional quadratic jump rate
- Generalization to higher dimensions
- Generalization to a non-quadratic jump rate
- Probability distribution of the recycling times
- Presentation of the problem: first return time in Brownian motion
- The unconfined model in one dimension
- The Doppler model in one dimension
- The confined model: random walk with walls
- Broad distributions and Levy statistics: a brief overview.