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physics.atom-ph1998★ 80 cited
Atom cooling and trapping by disorder
Peter Horak, Jean-Yves Courtois, Gilbert Grynberg
We demonstrate the possibility of three-dimensional cooling of neutral atoms by illuminating them with two counterpropagating laser beams of mutually orthogonal linear polarization…
quant-ph1998★ 8 cited
Recoil and momentum diffusion of an atom close to a vacuum-dielectric interface
Carsten Henkel, Jean-Yves Courtois
We derive the quantum-mechanical master equation (generalized optical Bloch equation) for an atom in the vicinity of a flat dielectric surface. This equation gives access to the se…