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Why Cool and Trap Atoms? Original motivation and most practical current application:
ATOMIC CLOCKS
Current scientific activity:
A new field of cold-atom physics, including a lot of work in quantum degenerate gases with connections to condensed matter physics, and quantum information Generally, cold atoms provide new quantum systems with new possibilities: Much if not most of current AMO physics uses cold atoms in some way.
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Atomic Clock: Ramsey separated oscillatory fields
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Motional Effects Observation time: Ramsey linewidth of Δν = 1/2T gives about 100 Hz width for a meter between Ramsey zones. 10-14 resolution requires splitting the line to 10-6. 1st-order Doppler: Δν/ν = (v/c) ; for typical thermal velocities v of a few 100 m/s, this is about 10-6, a disaster if not compensated. Doppler “free” techniques are essential, but residual effects remain. 2nd-order Doppler: Δν/ν = (1/2) (v/c)2 ; this is typically parts in 1013, and there is no “2nd-order Doppler-free” technique--the shift must be evaluated and corrected.
These issues were among those motivating laser cooling for clocks.
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Cooling and Trapping Atoms
Laser cooling: reducing the velocity spread of a thermal gas of atoms Electromagnetic trapping: confining atoms using laser or other electromagnetic (usually magnetic) fields
Note that “ordinary cooling” i.e., contact refrigeration, doesn’t generally work because gases condense or stick at temperatures too high to be useful.
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Note: The division of forces into “scattering” and “dipole” is usually quite clear. Nevertheless, there are some cases that are ambiguous in that they can be viewed as arising from either.
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= FWHM
photon scattering
rate
Rabi frequency = rate of oscillation between ground and excited states when δ = 0, Γ → 0.
Power-broadened, Lorentz line
shape
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An aside: There are more than one definition of “saturation intensity.” Our choice:
I/Io = 2Ω2/Γ2
takes it to be the intensity at which the natural decay and the power broadening contribute equally to the linewidth. Another common choice is:
I/Isat = Ω2/Γ2
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Optical dipole traps for neutral atoms A single laser beam, tightly focussed, tuned below resonance, makes a simple and commonly used trap for neutral atoms.
atoms trapped here, at point of max intensity
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Optical dipole traps for neutral atoms A single laser beam, tightly focussed, tuned below resonance, makes a simple and commonly used trap for neutral atoms.
atoms trapped here, at point of max intensity
Crossed dipole traps improve restoring force in all directions.
Far Off Resonance Trap (FORT)
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An aside: In the early days of optical forces on atoms, it was typical for detunings to be not very large compared to Ω, Γ. This was probably due in part to lack of laser power sufficient to have a big enough effect at large detuning (both because the lasers were weak and the atoms were hot). Today, it is more common to tune far from resonance, so the dipole potential is conservative, and is given by just one of the dressed state potentials.
This is possible because scattering goes as 1/δ2
while dipole potential goes as 1/δ2 .
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Aside: We have been working in the rotating wave approximation. This is fine as long as δ << ω0. Otherwise, one needs to consider the effect of the counter-rotating term. There are effects both on the spontaneous emission and on the dipole force. For example, as the applied frequency goes to DC, the spontaneous emission goes to zero, but the dipole force does not.
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Questions? • Clocks—Ramsey method, 1st and 2nd
Doppler
• Radiative forces: dipole and scattering
• Dressed Atom
• Rotating wave approximation
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substitute δδ àà δδ -/+ kv
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kΓ/2( ) I /Io( )1+ # I /Io + (4δ 2 + 8kδv + 4k 2v 2) /Γ2 − 1+ # I /Io + (4δ 2 − 8kδv + 4k 2v 2) /Γ2( )
1+ # I /Io +2 δ − kv[ ]
Γ
&
' (
)
* +
2&
' ( (
)
* + + 1+ # I /Io +
2 δ + kv[ ]Γ
&
' (
)
* +
2&
' ( (
)
* + +
F± = ± kΓ/2( ) I /Io
1+ I /Io +2 δ kv[ ]
Γ
$
% &
'
( )
2
F = F+ + F− =
F =4k 2 I /Io( )
1+ " I /Io +2δΓ
%
& ' (
) *
2+
, -
.
/ 0
22δΓ
v assume kv << δ, Γ
I’/I0 accounts for cross saturation
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I’ = 2I, meaning
alternating beams or no
cross-saturation
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Fluctuations of the Scattering Force
1. Fluctuations of the number of photons absorbed per unit time.
2. Fluctuations in the direction of spontaneously emitted photons.
(here, assume a 1-D universe)
NOTE: Both of these effects arise from the randomness of Spontaneous emission.
The fluctuations represent a random walk, of step !k, around the momentum change produced by the average force.
d/dt <∆p2> = 2 R (!k)2 (assumed Poisson)
Two recoils/scattering Scattering rate
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Einstein’s treatment of
Brownian motion
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and where the beams act independently on the atoms
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Aside: The result !(kvrms)limit << !Γ justifies the assumptions we made about the linearity of F = -αv. In order for our expressions for the average force to be meaningful, we must also have Erec << !Γ. Satisfying this latter condition guarantees that the cooling limit will also satisfy its condition, although less strongly. That is:
Erec < !(kvrms)limit < !Γis the usual situation.
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The Doppler shift of atoms moving at the rms Doppler cooling limit velocity is the geometric mean of the recoil shift
(Erec/!) and the natural linewidth.
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Questions? Doppler cooling Momentum diffusion—due to both absorption and emission Equilibrium temperature
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various techniques exist—beyond scope of this lecture
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Na Optical Molasses
How do we measure the temperature of a gas that is supposed to be as cold as 240 µK?
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Release and recapture
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TOF expt.
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Aside: Today, temperatures are measured by imaging the cloud after free expansion.
TIME
This is the current usual meaning of “time-of-flight” (TOF)
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TOF expt.
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240 µµK
40 µµK
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Soon, Dalibard & Cohen-Tannoudji at ENS and Chu and colleagues at Stanford Discovered a new explanation for laser cooling, involving: • Multi-state atoms • Polarization gradients • Light shifts • Optical pumping
We follow the Dalibard and Cohen-Tannoudji model
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Multi-level Atoms (The old theory was not really wrong;
it only applied to 2-level atoms.)
|ground state>
|excited state>
lase
r exc
itatio
n
spontaneous emission
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Multi-level Atoms (The old theory was not really wrong;
it only applied to 2-level atoms.)
|ground state>
|excited state>
lase
r exc
itatio
n
spontaneous emission
1 1
2/3
-1/2 +1/2
2/3
1/3
σσ- σσ+
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Polarization gradients
Vertical polarization Horizontal polarization
Orthogonally polarized, counter-propagating laser beams
0 λ/8 λ/4 3λ/8 λ/2
The atom experiences a polarization gradient as it moves
linear circular σ +
circular σ -
linear
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Light Shifts
σ+ σ-
1
1/3 1
1/3 σ+ σ-
J = 1/2
J = 3/2 m=1/2 m=3/2 m=-3/2 m=-1/2
m=-1/2 m=1/2
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(when δδ < 0)
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Questions?
TOF and temperature measurements Sub-Doppler cooling
polarization gradients optical pumping differential light shift lag in population adjustment
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Sisyphus temperatures The rate for Sisyphus cooling is typically much faster than for Doppler cooling, so the temperature is lower. The temperature gets colder for lower laser intensity greater laser detuning (contrary to the case for Doppler cooling) and is low enough that the atoms are trapped in the standing wave.
The lowest temperature achievable is limited to a few times the recoil temperature:
kBTrec = mv2rec Vrec = !k/M
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Estimating the Sisyphus Cooling Temperature
v τp
τ p−1 ≈
ΓΩ2
δ 2
U0 ≈Ωδ
2
F ≈U0 k vτ pk ≈Ω2
δk 2v 1
Ω2Γ δ 2 ≈ k2 δΓv
k =2πλ
energy/distance fraction of potential used
α ≈ k 2 δΓ
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Estimating the Sisyphus Cooling Temperature
F sisyphys = 3k 2 δΓvA careful
calculation gives:
F =4k 2 I /Io( )2δΓ
$
% & '
( )
42δΓv
Compare to Doppler cooling in the low-intensity, large-detuning limit:
Force is independent of intensity; increases with detuning (because less optical pumping means more energy loss).
F Dop max =k 2v
4
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Estimating the Sisyphus Cooling Temperature
The momentum diffusion coefficient
2Dp =ddtp2 ≈ Fτ p( )
2 1τ p
≈Ω2
δk
&
' (
)
* +
21
ΓΩ2 δ 2≈2k 2Ω2
Γ
kU0
kBT =Dp
α≈
2k 2Ω2
Γ
k 2 δΓ
≈Ω2
δ≈U0
The thermal energy is about equal to (in fact, less than) the potential depth, so the atoms are typically trapped.
What happens as U0 0?
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force
velocity
Atoms are captured by Doppler cooling in the wings of the F(v) curve.
Once the atoms are sufficiently cold, the sub-Doppler mechanism takes over and further cools the gas.
Note: For good sub-Doppler cooling, the detuning is typically, larger than suggested by this F(v).
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How low ? Typical lowest thermal velocities are a few times the recoil velocity. vrec for Cs is 3.5 mm/s By adiabatically releasing atoms trapped in the standing waves, we have achieved cesium temperatures below 1 microkelvin, v < 1 cm/s. This cooling has become standard procedure for atomic clocks.
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The importance of low temperature
Low T “High” T
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NIST F-1
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Atomic Fountain Clocks Today Fountain clocks using Cs and Rb operate in standards labs around the world. The best of these have accuracies of about 1 x 10-16 or less, and together the Cs fountains determine the rate of international atomic time. The accuracy of Cs fountains is in part limited by collisional frequency shifts. Rb has a smaller collisional shift. Blackbody shifts have also proved to be important. Laser-cooled, trapped ion clocks and optical lattice clocks are now exceeding the performance of neutral atom fountains.
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Neutral atoms (Sr) in optical lattices are at 2.4 x 10-18 accuracy at NIST/JILA.
This is equivalent to about one second in the age of the universe!
A single, trapped ion at NIST gives an accuracy of better than 8 x 10-18.
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Questions? Sub-Doppler cooling limit—trapping in lattice Fountain clocks Lattice clocks
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A benign trap (no light to heat the atoms) is a magneto-static trap.