Lévy statistics and laser cooling : how rare events bring atoms to rest / / François Bardou [and others] [[electronic resource]]
| Lévy statistics and laser cooling : how rare events bring atoms to rest / / François Bardou [and others] [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Bardou François <1967-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 199 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 539.7 |
| Soggetto topico |
Laser manipulation (Nuclear physics)
Laser cooling Atoms - Cooling Lévy processes |
| ISBN |
1-107-12469-7
1-282-38909-2 0-511-64291-1 9786612389092 0-511-15572-7 0-511-56144-X 0-511-75566-X 0-511-04459-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Lévy Statistics & Laser Cooling |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454929503321 |
Bardou François <1967->
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Lévy statistics and laser cooling : how rare events bring atoms to rest / / François Bardou [and others] [[electronic resource]]
| Lévy statistics and laser cooling : how rare events bring atoms to rest / / François Bardou [and others] [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Bardou François <1967-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 199 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 539.7 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | BardouFrançois <1967-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Laser manipulation (Nuclear physics)
Laser cooling Atoms - Cooling Lévy processes |
| ISBN |
1-107-12469-7
1-282-38909-2 0-511-64291-1 9786612389092 0-511-15572-7 0-511-56144-X 0-511-75566-X 0-511-04459-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Lévy Statistics & Laser Cooling |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780059903321 |
Bardou François <1967->
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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