Supercooling of Atoms in an Optical Resonator
arXiv:1512.03849 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.153002
Abstract
We investigate laser cooling of an ensemble of atoms in an optical cavity. We demonstrate that when atomic dipoles are sychronized in the regime of steady-state superradiance, the motion of the atoms may be subject to a giant frictional force leading to potentially very low temperatures. The ultimate temperature limits are determined by a modified atomic linewidth, which can be orders of magnitude smaller than the cavity linewidth. The cooling rate is enhanced by the superradiant emission into the cavity mode allowing reasonable cooling rates even for dipolar transitions with ultranarrow linewidth.
References in corpus (8)
- Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Gases
- Cold atoms in cavity-generated dynamical optical potentials
- Self-Organization Threshold Scaling for Thermal Atoms Coupled to a Cavity
- Prospects for the cavity-assisted laser cooling of molecules
- Prethermalization of atoms due to photon-mediated long-range interactions
- Conditional Ramsey Spectroscopy with Synchronized Atoms
- Relaxation oscillations, stability, and cavity feedback in a superradiant Raman laser
- Lasing and cooling in a hot cavity
Cited by in corpus (36)
- Lasing in the superradiant crossover regime
- Quantum synchronization in dimer atomic lattices
- Nonreciprocal Superradiant Phase Transitions and Multicriticality in a Cavity QED System
- Boosting the performance of small autonomous refrigerators via common environmental effects
- Collective effects on the performance and stability of quantum heat engines
- Dynamical phase transitions to optomechanical superradiance
- Cavity cooling of many atoms
- Steady-state spin synchronization through the collective motion of trapped ions
- Subradiant-to-Subradiant Phase Transition in the Bad Cavity Laser
- Cooperative spontaneous emission from indistinguishable atoms in arbitrary motional quantum states
- Continuous real-time tracking of a quantum phase below the standard quantum limit
- Super- and subradiance of clock atoms in multimode optical waveguides
- Superradiant Cooling, Trapping, and Lasing of Dipole-Interacting Clock Atoms
- Generalized classes of continuous symmetries in two-mode Dicke models
- Semiclassical theory of synchronization-assisted cooling
- Crafting the dynamical structure of synchronization by harnessing bosonic multilevel cavity QED
- Resonant light enhances phase coherence in a cavity QED simulator of fermionic superfluidity
- Atomic Quantum Technologies for Quantum Matter and Fundamental Physics Applications
- Superradiant optomechanical phases of cold atomic gases in optical resonators
- Regular and bistable steady-state superradiant phases of an atomic beam traversing an optical cavity
- Continuous-wave virtual-state lasing from cold ytterbium atoms
- Bose Condensation of Photons Thermalized via Laser Cooling of Atoms
- Quantum resonant optical bistability with a narrow atomic transition: bistability phase diagram in the bad cavity regime
- Fermionic matter-wave quantum optics with cold-atom impurity models
- Photon-mediated dipole-dipole interactions as a resource for quantum science and technology in cold atoms
- Superior dark-state cooling via nonreciprocal couplings in trapped atoms
- Enhanced dark-state sideband cooling in trapped atoms via photon-mediated dipole-dipole interactions
- Steady-state subradiance manipulated by the two-atom decay
- Sub-Doppler Laser Cooling using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
- Photon thermalization via laser cooling of atoms
- Chiral-coupling-assisted refrigeration in trapped ions
- State Carving in a Chirally-Coupled Atom-Nanophotonic Cavity
- Effective description of cooling and thermal shifts in quantum systems coupled to bosonic modes
- Mean-field Floquet theory for a three-level cold-atom laser
- Super-ultralow temperature laser cooling via interacting dark-state resonances
- Lindblad master equations for quantum systems coupled to dissipative bosonic modes