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Suppression of recoil heating by an optical lattice
1Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-7300, USA.
Physical Review Letters
|November 4, 2000
Abstract:
We report suppression of atomic heating by light scattering due to tight binding in a 3D far-off-resonant optical lattice. We show that rescattered spontaneously emitted photons do not heat trapped atoms when the scattering rate is much less than the trap vibrational frequency.

