Cavity cooling of a trapped atom using Electromagnetically-Induced transparency

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Date: 
2011-09-08
Author(s): 

M. Bienert, G. Morigi

Reference: 

arXiv:1109.1666

A cooling scheme for trapped atoms is proposed, which combines cavity-enhanced scattering and electromagnetically induced transparency. The cooling dynamics exploits a three-photon resonance, which combines laser and cavity excitations. It is shown that relatively fast ground-state cooling can be achieved in the Lamb-Dicke regime and for large cooperativity. Efficient ground-state cooling is found for parameters of ongoing experiments.