Physical Review A

Cooling of atoms in colored vacua

Maciej Lewenstein, L. Roso

Published Apr 1, 1993• 23 citations

Abstract

We study light-induced mechanical forces that act on atoms interacting with colored photon reservoirs. An exact treatment to calculate the forces, based on the numerical computation of a hierarchy of correlation functions, is presented. We show that such forces may be significantly larger than that in free space. Our numerical results confirm and extend a previously existing simplified model to describe such forces.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.47.3385

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