Recent years have witnessed an explosion of interest in quantum devices for the production,
storage, and transfer of energy. This Colloquium concentrates on the field of quantum …

The technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), which allows efficient and
selective population transfer between quantum states without suffering loss due to …

Coherent preparation by laser light of quantum states of atoms and molecules can lead to
quantum interference in the amplitudes of optical transitions. In this way the optical …

E lectromagnetically induced transparency is a technique for eliminating the effect of a
medium on a propagating beam of electromagnetic radiation. EIT may also be used, but …

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 …

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 …

The authors discuss the technique of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP), a
method of using partially overlap** pulses (from pump and Stokes lasers) to produce …

Interference with atomic and molecular matter waves is a rich branch of atomic physics and
quantum optics. It started with atom diffraction from crystal surfaces and the separated …

We propose a novel physical realization of a quantum computer. The qubits are electric
dipole moments of ultracold diatomic molecules, oriented along or against an external …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the coherent population trap** in laser
spectroscopy. Coherent population trap** may be also described as the pum** of the …