 Nobel Lecture: Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms by William D. Phillips

By William D. Phillips.

Source information: journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.70.721

Online text: cdn.journals.aps.org/files/RevModPhys.70.721.pdf

Published Nobel lecture solely credited to William D. Phillips, in Reviews of Modern Physics 70, pp. 721–741, 1 July 1998. Its ideal weak-intensity Doppler model is distinguished from the multilevel cooling experiments.

Cited passages: William D. Phillips, Nobel Lecture: Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms, 1998, pp. 729–730, Eqs. (1)–(2): recoil heating, linewidth convention and ideal three-dimensional temperature limit; William D. Phillips, Nobel Lecture: Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms, pp. 731–732, Figs. 15–16: probe reversal, deliberate heating, geometric uncertainties and independent thermometry; William D. Phillips, Nobel Lecture: Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms, pp. 733–734 and Fig. 18: multilevel polarization-gradient cooling.