Levy Statistics and Laser Cooling

How Rare Events Bring Atoms to Rest

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by Francois Bardou and Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published September 2001, 240 pages, paper

ISBN 0521004225

This is a book about laser cooling, a new research field with many potential applications. The authors present an original approach, using the tools and concepts of statistical physics. A new understanding of laser cooling, both intuitive and quantitative, is obtained. The volume also comprises a case study allowing non-Gaussian (Lé vy) statistics, a technique being used more frequently in many different fields.