arXiv · quant-ph/9906070
Collisional effects on the collective laser cooling of trapped bosonic gases
Abstract
We analyse the effects of atom-atom collisions on collective laser cooling scheme. We derive a quantum Master equation which describes the laser cooling in presence of atom-atom collisions in the weak-condensation regime. Using such equation, we perform Monte Carlo simulations of the population dynamics in one and three dimensions. We observe that the ground-state laser-induced condensation is maintained in the presence of collisions. Laser cooling causes a transition from a Bose-Einstein distribution describing collisionally induced equilibrium,to a distribution with an effective zero temperature. We analyse also the effects of atom-atom collisions on the cooling into an excited state of the trap.
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Luis Santos, Maciej Lewenstein. 1999-06-18. Collisional effects on the collective laser cooling of trapped bosonic gases. https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400050821
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