Cavity Assisted Nondestructive Laser Cooling of Atomic Qubits
arXiv:quant-ph/0311054 · doi:10.1088/0953-4075/37/7/004
Abstract
We analyze two configurations for laser cooling of neutral atoms whose internal states store qubits. The atoms are trapped in an optical lattice which is placed inside a cavity. We show that the coupling of the atoms to the damped cavity mode can provide a mechanism which leads to cooling of the motion without destroying the quantum information.
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