  We calculate the temperature of the atoms in the field of counter-propagating
stochastic light waves (the chaotic-field model). We show that the temperature
of the atomic ensemble depends on the autocorrelation time of the waves, their
intensity and the detuning of the carrier frequency of the waves from the
atomic transition frequency. The field can form a one-dimensional trap for
atoms, as is readily seen from our previous investigation of light-pressure
force on an atom in counter-propagating stochastic light waves [V. I.
Romanenko, B. W. Shore, L. P. Yatsenko, Opt. Commun. 268 (2006) 121-132]. We
carry out a numerical simulation of the atomic ensemble using parameters
appropriate for sodium atoms. Analyzing the known investigation of the
light-pressure force on atoms and their motion in the counter-propagating
polychromatic waves, we suggest an hypothesis that any polychromatic
counter-propagating waves that have a discrete spectrum, or waves described by
a stationary stochastic process, one of which repeats the other, can form a
trap for atoms.
