Abstract
A Monte Carlo simulation method is developed to model quantized atomic motion in one-dimensional optical molasses.1 We calculate atomic absorption and emission spectra and energy distribution functions for various J → J′ transitions coupled to linear and circularly polarized light for standing wave configurations.2 We are particularly interested in generation of sidebands in atomic spectra corresponding to quantized atomic motion.3 Our Monte Carlo method is based on propagating an atomic center-of-mass wave packet and simulating a sequence of spontaneous emissions between families of Bloch states in the periodic laser-induced potentials. Propagation of the (periodic part of the) atomic wave function in time is performed by using a variant of the split-operator FFT algorithm. Band structure calculations for these atomic configurations are presented.
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