Quantum statistics of a laser cooled ideal gas
J. I. Cirac, Maciej Lewenstein, P. Zoller · Physical Review Letters · 1994
We study the dynamics of a system of bosonic or fermionic atoms in a microscopic trap undergoing laser cooling. We show that the stationary state can be described by a Bose-Einstein or Fermi-Dirac distribution, respectively. Fluorescence from the system reflects quantum statistical properties.