Cavity cooling of a trapped atom using Electromagnetically-Induced Transparency

Marc Bienert, Giovanna Morigi

Published 2011-09-08, updated 2011-12-01Version 2

A cooling scheme for trapped atoms is proposed, which combines cavity-enhanced scattering and electromagnetically induced transparency. The cooling dynamics exploits a three-photon resonance, which combines laser and cavity excitations. It is shown that relatively fast ground-state cooling can be achieved in the Lamb-Dicke regime and for large cooperativity. Efficient ground-state cooling is found for parameters of ongoing experiments.