Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 2829–2832 (1994)Laser Cooling to a Single Quantum State in a TrapReceived 7 May 1994; published in the issue dated 21 November 1994 Laser cooling in a trap is investigated for configurations which allow the existence of "dark states" of the combined atom-plus-trap system, i.e., states which are decoupled from the laser light by quantum interference. Two examples of approximate dark states in a 1D flat bottom and 2D harmonic trap for angular momentum 1 to 1 transitions are discussed. A wave function simulation of the quantum master equation predicts that a significant fraction of the atoms are transferred to a single trap state. © 1994 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.2829
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.2829
PACS:
32.80.Pj, 42.50.Vk
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