2019/12/14 by Federico Berto, Berto, Federico, Carlo Sias +1
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas) #Quantum Information and Cryptography #cond-mat.quant-gas #physics.atom-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1912.08104
5 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2019/12/14 · openalex publication_date 2019/12/14 · arxiv updated 2019/12/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present an analytic and numerical study for realizing single photon sideband cooling in an ultracold sample of fermionic Lithium trapped in a periodic optical potential. We develop an analytical model and obtain a master equation for the bound level populations. The cooling sequence is simulated both with a laser at a fixed frequency and with a frequency sweep. Finally, a Monte Carlo simulation is performed taking into account the full hyperfine spectrum of 6 Li. We find that a gas of 6 Li atoms loaded from a Magneto-Optical trap into a deep optical lattice can be cooled down to a 99% occupancy of the lattice ground state after a 5mm single photon sideband cooling using the D1 line of Li.