TY  - GEN
AU  - Bardou, François
AU  - Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe
AU  - Aspect, Alain
AU  - Aspect, Alain
AU  - Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude
TI  - Levy statistics and laser cooling: how rare events bring atoms to rest 
SN  - 9780521004220
U1  - 539.7 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Theoretical physics
KW  - Levy statistics
KW  - Physics
KW  - Nuclear physics
KW  - Laser Manipulation
KW  - Laser Cooling
KW  - Atoms--Cooling
KW  - Levy Processes
KW  - Quantum optics
N1  - includes index and references
N2  - Laser cooling of atoms provides an ideal case study for the application of Lévy statistics in a privileged situation where the statistical model can be derived from first principles. This book demonstrates how the most efficient laser cooling techniques can be simply and quantitatively understood in terms of non-ergodic random processes dominated by a few rare events. Lévy statistics are now recognised as the proper tool for analysing many different problems for which standard Gaussian statistics are inadequate. Laser cooling provides a simple example of how Lévy statistics can yield analytic predictions that can be compared to other theoretical approaches and experimental results. The authors of this book are world leaders in the fields of laser cooling and light-atom interactions, and are renowned for their clear presentation. This book will therefore hold much interest for graduate students and researchers in the fields of atomic physics, quantum optics, and statistical physics.

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ER  -