The ability to cool, manipulate, and trap atoms using laser light has allowed a new, rapidly
expanding field to emerge. Current research focuses on improving existing cooling …

In this work, we discuss the resonance states of a quantum particle in a periodic potential
plus a static force. Originally, this problem was formulated for a crystal electron subject to a …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses optical dipole traps for neutral atoms. Methods
for storage and trapping of charged and neutral particles have very often served as the …

Interference of atomic de Broglie waves tunneling from a vertical array of macroscopically
populated traps has been observed. The traps were located in the antinodes of an optical …

Using a simple model, we calculate the heating rates arising from laser intensity noise and
beam-pointing fluctuations in far-off resonance optical traps. Intensity noise causes …

We trap neutral Cs atoms in a two-dimensional optical lattice and cool them close to the zero
point of motion by resolved-sideband Raman cooling. Sideband cooling occurs via …

We study the means of preparing and coherently manipulating atomic wave packets in
optical lattices, with particular emphasis on alkali-metal atoms in the far-detuned limit. We …

We present a review of the work done with dissipative optical lattices so far. A dissipative
optical lattice is achieved when a light field provides both velocity damping and spatial …

Laser-cooled rubidium atoms have been trapped in a nondissipative optical lattice with a
large lattice constant. The lattice potential is generated by the ac Stark shift in an infrared …

We present a new technique for cooling atoms below the photon recoil temperature. Free
expansion and a subsequent application of a pulsed potential narrows the momentum …