Picturing stimulated Raman adiabatic passage: a STIRAP tutorial

BW Shore - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2017 - opg.optica.org
The procedure of stimulated-Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), one of many well-
established techniques for quantum-state manipulation, finds widespread application in …

Plasmonic effects in excitonic population transfer in a driven semiconductor–metal nanoparticle hybrid system

MA Antón, F Carreño, S Melle, OG Calderón… - Physical Review B …, 2012 - APS
We have investigated the coherent transfer of excitonic populations in a semiconductor
quantum dot (SQD) modulated by the surface plasmon of a metallic nanoparticle (MNP). The …

Nuclear coherent population transfer to the isomer using x-ray pulses

T Kirschbaum, N Minkov, A Pálffy - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
Population of the 8 eV Th 229 m isomer via the second nuclear excited state at 29.19 keV by
means of coherent x-ray pulses is investigated theoretically. We focus on two nuclear …

Detrimental consequences of small rapid laser fluctuations on stimulated Raman adiabatic passage

LP Yatsenko, BW Shore, K Bergmann - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
We discuss the detrimental effect of small rapid random fluctuations of laser-field amplitude
and phase upon the efficiency of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP). Such …

Quantum state engineering in a five-state chainwise system by generalized coincident pulse technique

J Zhang - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, an exact analytical solution is presented for achieving coherent population
transfer and creating arbitrary coherent superposition states in a five-state chainwise system …

Composite pulses for population transfer in the interaction of two-level nuclear systems with X-ray laser pulses

M Amiri, MS -Niari - The European Physical Journal A, 2023 - Springer
Population transfer of two-state nuclei interacting with a train of composite X-ray free
electron laser (XFEL) pulses has been investigated theoretically. In this study, we calculate …

Superposition of nuclear states in multi-lambda systems using x-ray laser pulses

N Mansourzadeh-Ashkani… - Journal of Physics G …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Nuclear-state population transfer in the multi-lambda systems with N= 5 that interact with
four x-ray laser pulses are investigated theoretically. By using the coincident pulses and …

Nuclear-state engineering in tripod systems using x-ray laser pulses

B Nedaee-Shakarab, M Saadati-Niari, F Zolfagharpour - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
Coherent superposition of nuclear states in tripod systems using three x-ray laser pulses is
investigated theoretically. The laser pulses transfer the population from one ground state to …

Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage with trains of weak pulses

IR Sola, BY Chang, SA Malinovskaya… - Journal of Physics B …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider coherent population transfer in multilevel quantum systems driven by time-
delayed pulse trains. We show how to choose the parameters of the trains so that the …

Digital three-state adiabatic passage

JA Vaitkus, AD Greentree - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2013 - APS
We explore protocols for three-state adiabatic passage where the tunnel matrix elements are
varied digitally, rather than smoothly as is the case with conventional adiabatic passage. In …