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We study a dynamical scheme for condensation of bosonic trapped gases beyond the Lamb-Dicke limit, when the photon-recoil energy is larger than the energy spacing of the trap. Using quantum master equation formalism we demonstrate that dark-state cooling methods similar to those designed for a single trapped atom allow for the condensation of a collection of bosons into a single state of the trap, either the ground, or an excited state. By means of Monte-Carlo simulations we analyse the condensation dynamics for different dimensions, and for different cooling schemes.
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Received 30 November 1998 and Received in final form 20 March 1999
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Santos, L., Lewenstein, M. Condensation of laser cooled gases. Eur. Phys. J. D 7, 379–390 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050582
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050582