title: State-insensitive cooling and trapping of single atoms in an optical cavity.
abstract: Single cesium atoms are cooled and trapped inside a small optical cavity by way of a novel far-off-resonance dipole-force trap, with observed lifetimes of 2-3 s. Trapped atoms are observed continuously via transmission of a strongly coupled probe beam, with individual events lasting approximately 1 s. The loss of successive atoms from the trap N>/=3-->2-->1-->0 is thereby monitored in real time. Trapping, cooling, and interactions with strong coupling are enabled by the trap potential, for which the center-of-mass motion is only weakly dependent on the atom's internal state.
authors.affiliation: Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics 12-33, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McKeever
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Buck
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Boozer
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kuzmich
authors.forename: H C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Nägerl
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Stamper-Kurn
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Kimble