Abstract
We formulate a Fokker-Planck theory for the three-dimensional cooling of a trapped ion by means of a single laser beam. Both the steady state and the dynamics of the cooling are discussed, and the correlations between the vibrational modes due to the light pressure are elucidated. A few comments on the actual experiments are presented.
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