This is a review of state-of-the-art theory and experiment of the motion of cold and ultracold
atoms coupled to the radiation field within a high-finesse optical resonator in the dispersive …

We study an ultracold gas of neutral atoms subject to the periodic optical potential generated
by a high-Q cavity mode. In the limit of very low temperatures, cavity field and atomic …

Controlling quantum dynamical processes is the key to practical applications of quantum
physics, for example in quantum information science. The manipulation of light–matter …

We present a detailed study of the spatial self-organization of laser-driven atoms in an
optical cavity, an effect predicted on the basis of numerical simulations [P. Domokos and H …

Cooling of molecules via free-space dissipative scattering of photons is thought not to be
practicable due to the inherently large number of Raman loss channels available to …

We derive an equation for the cooling dynamics of the quantum motion of an atom trapped
by an external potential inside an optical resonator. This equation has broad validity and …

We study off-resonant collective light scattering from ultracold atoms trapped in an optical
lattice. Scattering from different atomic quantum states creates different quantum states of …

We study quantum particles at zero temperature in an optical lattice coupled to a resonant
cavity mode. The cavity field substantially modifies the particle dynamics in the lattice, and …

We investigate theoretically the mechanical effects of light on atoms trapped by an external
potential, whose dipole transition couples to the mode of an optical resonator and is driven …

A robust scheme for trap** and cooling atoms is described. It combines a deep dipole-trap
which localizes the atom in the center of a cavity with a laser directly exciting the atom. In …