Lévy Statistics and Laser Cooling: How Rare Events Bring Atoms to Rest

This is a book about laser cooling, a new research field with many potential applications. The authors present an original approach, using the tools and concepts of statistical physics. A new understanding of laser cooling, both intuitive and quantitative, is obtained. The volume also comprises a case study allowing non-Gaussian (L vy) statistics, a technique being used more frequently in many different fields.

Author: François Bardou, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Alain Aspect
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/20/2001
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.32h x 7.00w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780521004220

About the Author
Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude: - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji is Professor of Atomic and Molecular Physics at the College de France in Paris and was honoured with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 for his work on the development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light. He is also the co-author of three other books: Quantum Mechanics (1992), Photons and Atoms: Introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics (1989), and Atom-Photon Interactions: Basic Processes and Applications (1998).Bardou, François: - François Bardou obtained his Ph.D. in 1995 at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris for his experimental and theoretical studies of laser cooling below the one photon recoil, and was the 1995 winner of the Aimé Cotton prize (Atomic Physics prize of the French Physical Society). He now works at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) where he works on stochastic problems in quantum tunnelling.Bouchaud, Jean-Philippe: - Jean-Philippe Bouchard is a Senior Expert at the Service de Physique de l'Etat Condense and at CEA-Saclay. In 1994 he founded his own company called Science and Finance, and continues to have diverse research interests which include statistical physics, granular matter and theoretical finance. He is in charge of various statistical physics and finance courses in the Grandes Ecoles, Paris, and is the co-author of Theory of Financial Risk (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
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