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  title info:
    title: Coherent Atomic Manipulation and Cooling
    sub title: Interferometric Laser Cooling and Composite Pulses for Atom Interferometry
  name:
    name part: Dunning, Alexander J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    edition: 1st ed. 2015.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 164 p. 60 illus., 37 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This work unites the concepts of laser cooling and matter-wave interferometry to develop an interferometric laser cooling technique in an experimental system of cold rubidium atoms. Serving as an introduction to graduate level coherent optical atomic manipulation, the thesis describes the theory of stimulated Raman transitions and atom interferometry, along with the experimental methods for preparing and manipulating cold atoms, before building on these foundations to explore tailored optical pulse sequences and novel atomic cooling techniques. Interferometric cooling, originally proposed by Weitz and Hänsch in 2000, is based upon the coherent broadband laser pulses of Ramsey interferometry and in principle allows laser cooling of atomic and molecular species outside the scope of traditional Doppler laser cooling. On the path toward cooling, composite pulses – quantum error correction methods, developed by chemists to mitigate the effects of in homogeneities in NMR spectroscopy – are investigated with a view to improving the performance of atom interferometers.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Coherent Manipulation and Interferometry -- Rubidium MOT and Experimental Procedures -- Raman Pulse Generation -- Raman Pulse Characterisation -- Composite Raman Pulses -- Interferometric Cooling -- Conclusions.
  note: by Alexander J. Dunning.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
  subject:
    topic: Condensed materials
  subject:
    topic: Condensed matter
  subject:
    topic: Quantum computers
  subject:
    topic: Spintronics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Gases and Condensates
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  classification: QC175.16.C6
  classification: 539
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research
  identifier: 9783319217383
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21738-3
  record info:
    record creation date: 150818
    record change date: 20151204170403.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-21738-3