Chirping a two-photon transition in a multi-state ladder
Quantum Physics
2007-09-12 v1 Atomic Physics
Abstract
We consider a two-photon transition in a specific ladder system driven by a chirped laser pulse. In the weak field limit, we find that the excited state probability amplitude arises due to interference of multiple quantum paths which are weighted by quadratic phase factors. The excited state population has the form of a Gauss sum which plays a prominent role in number theory.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0702122,
title = {Chirping a two-photon transition in a multi-state ladder},
author = {Wolfgang Merkel and Holger Mack and Wolfgang P. Schleich and Eric Lutz and Gerhard G. Paulus and Bertrand Girard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0702122},
year = {2007}
}