Rendiconti della Scuola internazionale di fisica "Enrico Fermi."

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North-Holland, 1992 - Atoms - 771 pages

Contents

Introduction
1
Precision measurement of the g factor of
7
Subharmonic excitation of a single electron
8
Observation of timevarying radiation pressure forces
9
Hg optical spectroscopy
10
H WALTHER Singleatom experiments and the test of fundamental quantum physics 1 The oneatom maser 11 Introduction
11
Review of the oneatom maser
12
Dynamics of a single atom
13
Mechanical Hanle effect
231
Arbitrary field limit
235
Onedimensional experiments in optical molasses
252
More on molasses
258
Magnetically assisted Sisyphus effect
274
Calculation of the interferometer phase shift
275
Novel atom sources and devices
281
beams in ASTRID 1 Introduction
304

A new source of nonclassical light
14
Verylowtemperature behaviour of a micromaser
15
A new probe of complementarity in quantum mechanics Summary and conclusion
17
Resonance methods
18
Phase transitions of stored lasercooled ions 21 Introduction
21
Description of the trap
22
23 Outline of the theory 24 Experimental and theoretical results
24
The crystal cloud transition
25
Laser cooling and laser heating
26
The r f heating mechanism
27
S STENHOLM
29
PART III
30
PART II
39
3
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F WALLS
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Introduction
71
Localization of atomic position
78
The effect of spontaneous emission on the twoslit atomic interference
85
Laser cooling in a squeezed vacuum
91
Light shifts of the groundstate sublevels
108
31
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The limits of lowintensity Sisyphus cooling
131
Equations of motion and their solutions 3 The wave functions
134
Internal state for a moving atom
141
4
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two counterpropagating waves
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Conclusion
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Two counterpropagating plane waves with orthogonal polarizations
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A ASPECT O EMILE C GERZ R KAISER N VANSTEENKISTE
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Traps for neutral atoms
316
Magnetooptic trap MOT
321
Emission spectrum of lasercooled atoms
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345
MILC experiments in an added r f field
353
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E PRITCHARD and W KETTERLE Atom traps and atom optics
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Why nondissipative cooling mechanisms are not very useful
482
Diffuselight slowing
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The ion trap
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ITANO J C BERGQUIST J J BOLLINGER and D J WINELAND
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Sympathetic laser cooling
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MOORE J M GILLIGAN M G RAIZEN C S WEIMER
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Future Penning trap experiments
547
Introduction
553
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Introduction and ultimate motivation for the study
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Comparing r f and optical sources
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Frequency noise spectral density
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Allans variance
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Doppler theory of the
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Conclusion
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Cold collisions in the absence of light
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PART II
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Optical manipulation of excitedstate collisions pag
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