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We investigate the possibility of all optical trapping and cooling a single atom at the antinodes of a high Q optical cavity mode to which the atom is strongly coupled. For properly chosen parameters the dynamics of the cavity field introduces a novel Sisyphus type cooling mechanism yielding final temperatures much below the Doppler limit and allowing for long trapping times, avoiding the problems induced by spontaneous emission.
Horák et al. (1997) studied this question.