2006•Physical Review ARequires access
Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in a two-state system
Nikolay V. Vitanov, Bruce W. Shore
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Abstract
We present a method, using adiabatic passage, for creating a maximally coherent superposition in a two-state atom. The method exploits the analogy between the two-state Bloch equations and the three-state stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) equations, and uses two sequential but overlapping pulsed fields, a driving pump pulse and a delayed but overlapped detuning pulse. Like STIRAP, this method is robustly insensitive to small changes in pulse properties.