Laser cooling of internal degrees of freedom. II

Theoretical progress in the cooling of internal degrees of freedom of molecules using shaped laser pulses is reported. The emphasis is on general concepts and universal constraints. Several alternative definitions of cooling are considered, including reduction of the von Neumann entropy, −tr{ρlogρ} and increase of the Renyi entropy, tr{ρ2}. A distinction between intensive and extensive considerations is used to analyse the cooling process in open systems. It is shown that the Renyi entropy increase is consistent with an increase in the system phase space density and an increase in the absolute population in the ground state. The limitations on cooling processes imposed by Hamiltonian generated unitary transformations are analyzed. For a single mode system with a ground and excited electronic surfaces driven by an external field it is shown that it is impossible to increase the ground state population beyond its initial value. A numerical example based on optimal control theory demonstrates this result....

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