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- Title
New friction force due to spontaneous light pressure.
- Authors
Prudnikov, O. N.; Taıchenachev, A. V.; Tumaıkin, A. M.; Yudin, V. I.
- Abstract
We have discovered a new friction force, acting on an atom in the field of two oppositely propagating elliptically polarized waves of low intensity. In contrast to the well-known friction forces, the new force does not vanish at zero detuning of the field from resonance, and the direction of the kinetic process (heating or cooling) is determined by the relative orientation and the ellipticity of the polarization vectors of the oppositely propagating waves. © 1999 American Institute of Physics.
- Subjects
FRICTION; ELECTRIC waves; OPTICAL polarization
- Publication
JETP Letters, 1999, Vol 70, Issue 7, p443
- ISSN
0021-3640
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/1.568194