title: Cooling in a bistable optical cavity.
abstract: We propose a generic approach to nonresonant laser cooling of atoms and molecules in a bistable optical cavity. The method exemplifies a photonic version of Sisyphus cooling, in which the matter-dressed cavity extracts energy from the particles and discharges it to the external field as a result of sudden transitions between two stable states.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 76100.
authors.forename: Mark Y
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Vilensky
authors.forename: Yehiam
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Prior
authors.forename: Ilya Sh
authors.initials: ISh
authors.lastname: Averbukh