Anomalous statistics of laser-cooled atoms in dissipative optical lattices

Abstract

Diffusion occurs in numerous physical systems throughout nature, drawing its generality from the universality of the central limit theorem. Around a century ago it was realized that an extension to this type of dynamics can be obtained in the form of ``anomalous" diffusion where distributions are allowed to have heavy, power-law tails. Due to a unique feature of its momentum-dependant dissipative friction force, laser-cooled atomic ensembles can be used as a test bed for such dynamics. The interplay between laser cooling and anomalous dynamics bears deep, predictive implications for fundamental concepts in both equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics. The high degree of control available in cold-atom experiments allows for tuning of the parameters of the friction force, revealing transitions in the dynamical properties of the system. Rare events, in both the momentum and spatial distributions, are described by non-normalized states using tools adapted from infinite ergodic theory. This leads to new experimental and theoretical results, illuminating the various features of the system.

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