Lvy Statistics and Laser Cooling by Franois Bardou, Jean-Ph... - 9780521808217

Lvy Statistics and Laser CoolingHow Rare Events Bring Atoms to Rest\nAuthor(s): Franois Bardou, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Alain Aspect, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521808217, 978-0521808217\nSynopsis\nLaser cooling of atoms provides an ideal case study for the application of Lvy 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. Lvy 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 Lvy statistics can yield analytic predictions that can be compared to other theoretical approaches and experimental r.