Stark-chirped rapid adiabatic passage among degenerate-level manifolds
- Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade, Pregrevica 118, 11080 Belgrade (Serbia)
We generalize Stark-chirped rapid adiabatic passage (SCRAP) to the case of two and three degenerate-level manifolds. The analysis of a degenerate-level system is facilitated by its subdivision into a set of smaller independently evolving subsystems corresponding to the minimal-sized invariant subspaces of the Hamiltonian. Population transfer from the starting to the final level is examined for different types of the invariant subspaces depending on the presence of dark states. It is shown that the complete transfer is feasible if the initial state is prepared into specific coherent superpositions. Our formalism is applicable to the general case of arbitrary numbers of degenerate states within each level and arbitrary couplings of the appropriate transitions. It represents a generalization of well-known Morris-Shore transformation to the case when the removed degeneracy of the sublevels leads to detuning from two-photon resonance. We give the application of the SCRAP formalism to the {sup 87}Rb atom.
- OSTI ID:
- 21316436
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. A, Vol. 80, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.043416; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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