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Coherent excitation of two-state system by a Lorentzian filed

Quantum Physics 2014-02-21 v1

Abstract

This work presents an analytic description of the coherent excitation of a two-state quantum system by an external field with a Lorentzian temporal shape and a constant frequency. An exact analytical solution for the differential equation of the model is derived in terms of Confluent Heun functions. Also a very accurate analytic approximation to the transition probability is derived by using the Dykhne-Davis-Pechukas approach. This approximation provides analytic expressions for the frequency and amplitude of the probability oscillations.

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@article{arxiv.1402.5119,
  title  = {Coherent excitation of two-state system by a Lorentzian filed},
  author = {G. S. Vasilev and N. V. Vitanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.5119},
  year   = {2014}
}