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Control of population flow in coherently driven quantum ladders

  • Ruth Garcia-Fernandez*
  • , Aigars Ekers
  • , Leonid P. Yatsenko
  • , Nikolay V. Vitanov
  • , Klaas Bergmann
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • The University of Kaiserslautern-Landau
  • National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
  • Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski

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Abstract

A technique for adiabatic control of the population flow through a preselected decaying excited level in a three-level quantum ladder is presented. The population flow through the intermediate or upper level is controlled efficiently and robustly by varying the pulse delay between a pair of partly overlapping coherent laser pulses. The technique is analyzed theoretically and demonstrated in an experiment with Na2 molecules.

Original languageEnglish
Article number043001
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume95
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Jul 2005

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