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Cooling in a Bistable Optical Cavity

Mark Y. Vilensky, Yehiam Prior, Ilya Sh. Averbukh

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0612026

Abstract

We propose a generic approach to nonresonant laser cooling of atoms/molecules in a bistable optical cavity. The method exemplifies a photonic version of Sisyphus cooling, in which the matter-dressed cavity extracts energy from the particles and discharges it to the external field as a result of sudden transitions between two stable states.

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