Piecewise Adiabatic Population Transfer in a Molecule via a Wave Packet
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters
- Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, V6T 1Z2 (Canada)
- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440 (United States)
We propose a class of schemes for robust population transfer between quantum states that utilize trains of coherent pulses, thus forming a generalized adiabatic passage via a wave packet. We study piecewise stimulated Raman adiabatic passage with pulse-to-pulse amplitude variation, and piecewise chirped Raman passage with pulse-to-pulse phase variation, implemented with an optical frequency comb. In the context of production of ultracold ground-state molecules, we show that with almost no knowledge of the excited potential, robust high-efficiency transfer is possible.
- OSTI ID:
- 21134111
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 101, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.023601; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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