Abstract
We consider the laser-induced deflection of a free two-level atom. When Doppler detuning is neglected, we obtain a Fokker–Planck equation as a result of lifting a continuous degeneracy. The problem is offered as an example of how an elimination of microscopic, fast degrees of freedom can provide a microscopic statistical-mechanics description in classical phase space.
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