Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage dynamics

Adiabatic passage can result in a robust population transfer if one uses adiabatic variations of at least two effective parameters of the total laser fields. They can be the amplitude and the detuning of a single laser (chirping) or the amplitudes of two delayed pulses [stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) see Ref. 69 for a review]. The different eigenenergy surfaces are connected to each other by conical intersections, which are associated with resonances (which can be either zero field resonances or dynamical resonances appearing beyond a threshold of the the field intensities). The positions of these intersections determine the possible sets of paths that link an initial state and the... 

S. Guerin, L.P. Yatsenko, T. Halfmann, B.W. Shore, K. Bergmarm, Stimulated hyper-Raman adiabatic passage.ll.Static compensation of dynamic Stark shifts, Phys. Rev. A 58 (1998) 4691. 

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