Laser cooling is a technique used by the cooling of atoms.
In the preparation of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) used laser cooling in the first phase of cooling, to give a thermal breakdown is given at a temperature of about 150 μKelvin (150 kelvins = -123.15 degrees Celsius). For further cooling of the thermal atoms, which BECet formed, applied technology, evaporative cooling.
Theory
"By laser cooling to cool thermal cloud by irradiating laser light in a so-called magneto optical trap. The laser frequency must be slightly less than the resonant frequency of the atoms, as the thermal atoms consists of, since it only wants to curb the fastest of atoms in the thermal cloud.
By using laser light with a frequency that is slightly smaller than "rest" resonant frequency of the atoms, achieved just that some of the fastest-atom interact with laser light. It is only nuclear, moving with a very specific timetables, which will interact with laser light, since energy difference between two energy transitions in the atoms must correspond to the frequency of the laser. Due to Doppler effect, it will only be the fastest atoms in laser frequency is slightly less than for those atoms at rest.
When one of the atoms excites a radiation, the quantum while the momentum, to the atom, the atom achieves a momentum change in the opposite direction of its movement direction. Then the atom will decay by spontaneous emission of radiation emissions with the same frequency as the absorbed rays. The impulse, as the atom is affected by the decay, that is the same as when the atom absorbed quanta, as photo energy is conserved. But as the likelihood that radiation broadcast in a certain direction by spontaneous emission is equal in every direction, the atom in the average will not be affected by any pulse in a certain direction. Pulse change in a particular direction by spontaneous emission is equal to 0.
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