Cooling atomic ensembles with Maxwell's demon
This dissertation details the development and implementation of novel experimental techniques for cooling neutral atoms. Based on a method first proposed by Maxwell in a nineteenth century thought experiment, these techniques reduce the entropy of an ensemble by allowing unidirectional transmission...
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| Language: | English |
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-08-3742 |