Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in physics, chemistry, and beyond

NV Vitanov, AA Rangelov, BW Shore… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
The technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), which allows efficient and
selective population transfer between quantum states without suffering loss due to …

Nonadiabatic landau–zener–stückelberg–majorana transitions, dynamics, and interference

V Ivakhnenko, SN Shevchenko, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the pioneering works by Landau, Zener, Stückelberg, and Majorana (LZSM), it has
been known that driving a quantum two-level system results in tunneling between its states …

Training Schrödinger's cat: Quantum optimal control: Strategic report on current status, visions and goals for research in Europe

SJ Glaser, U Boscain, T Calarco, CP Koch… - The European Physical …, 2015 - Springer
It is control that turns scientific knowledge into useful technology: in physics and engineering
it provides a systematic way for driving a dynamical system from a given initial state into a …

[BOOK][B] The Jaynes–Cummings model and its descendants: modern research directions

J Larson, T Mavrogordatos - 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The Jaynes–Cummings Model (JCM) has recently been receiving increased attention as
one of the simplest, yet intricately nonlinear, models of quantum physics. Emphasising the …

Control of quantum phenomena: past, present and future

C Brif, R Chakrabarti, H Rabitz - New Journal of Physics, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum control is concerned with active manipulation of physical and chemical processes
on the atomic and molecular scale. This work presents a perspective of progress in the field …

Introduction to the Pontryagin maximum principle for quantum optimal control

U Boscain, M Sigalotti, D Sugny - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
Optimal control theory is a powerful mathematical tool, which has known a rapid
development since the 1950s, mainly for engineering applications. More recently, it has …

Landau–zener–stückelberg interferometry

SN Shevchenko, S Ashhab, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2010 - Elsevier
A transition between energy levels at an avoided crossing is known as a Landau–Zener
transition. When a two-level system (TLS) is subject to periodic driving with sufficiently large …

Shortcuts to adiabaticity

E Torrontegui, S Ibáñez, S Martínez-Garaot… - Advances in atomic …, 2013 - Elsevier
Quantum adiabatic processes—that keep constant the populations in the instantaneous
eigenbasis of a time-dependent Hamiltonian—are very useful to prepare and manipulate …

Light propagation and localization in modulated photonic lattices and waveguides

IL Garanovich, S Longhi, AA Sukhorukov, YS Kivshar - Physics Reports, 2012 - Elsevier
We review both theoretical and experimental advances in the recently emerged field of
modulated photonic lattices. These artificial periodic dielectric structures provide a powerful …

Shortcuts to adiabaticity in Krylov space

K Takahashi, A del Campo - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
Shortcuts to adiabaticity provide fast protocols for quantum state preparation in which the
use of auxiliary counterdiabatic controls circumvents the requirement of slow driving in …