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Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) enables coherent light-matter storage, forming the basis of photonic quantum memories that are essential for scalable quantum networks and distributed quantum computing. However, accelerating…

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We show that stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) and its superadiabatic version (saSTIRAP) have a natural geometric two-star representation on the Majorana sphere. In the case of STIRAP, we find that the evolution is confined to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-19 Shruti Dogra , Antti Vepsäläinen , G. S. Paraoanu

We consider the optimal control problem of transferring population between states of a quantum system where the coupling proceeds only via intermediate states that are subject to decay. We pose the question whether it is generally possible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Haidong Yuan , Christiane Koch , Peter Salamon , David Tannor

Adiabaticity is a key concept in physics, but its applications in mechanical and control engineering remain underexplored. Adiabatic invariants ensure robust dynamics under slow changes, but they impose impractical time limitations.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 I. Lizuain , A. Tobalina , A. Rodriguez-Prieto

Achieving fast, excitation-free quantum control is a vital challenge in modern quantum technologies. In many cases, shortcuts to adiabaticity enable fast adiabatic-like protocols, yet determining control parameters that satisfy practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Bo Xing , Jesús G. Parejo , Sofía Martínez-Garaot , Paola Cappellaro , Mikel Palmero

Adiabatic manipulation of the quantum state is an essential tool in modern quantum information processing. Here we demonstrate the speed-up of the adiabatic population transfer in a three-level superconducting transmon circuit by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-18 Antti Vepsäläinen , Sergey Danilin , Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

We experimentally demonstrate composite stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (CSTIRAP), which combines the concepts of composite pulse sequences and adiabatic passage. The technique is applied for population transfer in a rare-earth doped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 Alexander Bruns , Genko T. Genov , Marcel Hain , Nikolay V. Vitanov , Thomas Halfmann

The implementation of a Lambda scheme in superconducting artificial atoms could allow detec- tion of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) and other quantum manipulations in the microwave regime. However symmetries which on one hand…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. Falci , A. La Cognata , M. Berritta , A. D'Arrigo , E. Paladino , B. Spagnolo

Quantum metrology makes use of quantum mechanics to improve precision measurements and measurement sensitivities. It is usually formulated for time-independent Hamiltonians but time-dependent Hamiltonians may offer advantages, such as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Marina Cabedo-Olaya , Juan Gonzalo Muga , Sofía Martínez-Garaot

We introduce a method for the coherent acceleration of atoms trapped in an optical lattice, using the well-known model for stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP). Specifically, we show that small harmonic modulations of the optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Benjamin P. Holder , Linda E. Reichl

Keeping a quantum system in a given instantaneous eigenstate is a control problem with numerous applications, e.g., in quantum information processing. The problem is even more challenging in the setting of open quantum systems, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Jun Jing , Marcelo S. Sarandy , Daniel A. Lidar , Da-Wei Luo , Lian-Ao Wu

A nonlinear stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) is a fascinating physical process that dynamically explores chaotic and non-chaotic phases. In a recent paper Phys. Rev. Res. 2, 042004 (R) (2020), such a phenomenon is realized in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Amit Dey

Quantum state transformations that are robust to experimental imperfections are important for applications in quantum information science and quantum sensing. Counterdiabatic (CD) approaches, which use knowledge of the underlying system…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-10 Eric J. Meier , Kinfung Ngan , Dries Sels , Bryce Gadway

When a quantum system is driven adiabatically through a parametric cycle in a degenerate Hilbert space, the state would acquire a non-Abelian geometric phase, which is stable and forms the foundation for holonomic quantum computation (HQC).…

We exploit a microscopically derived master equation for the study of STIRAP in the presence of decay from the auxiliary level toward the initial and final state, and compare our results with the predictions obtained from a phenomenological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Scala , B. Militello , A. Messina , N. V. Vitanov

Shortcuts to adiabaticity is a general method for speeding up adiabatic quantum protocols, and has many potential applications in quantum information processing. Unfortunately, analytically constructing shortcuts to adiabaticity for systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 F. Setiawan , Peter Groszkowski , Hugo Ribeiro , Aashish A. Clerk

Shortcuts to adiabaticity are well-known methods for controlling the quantum dynamics beyond the adiabatic criteria, where counter-diabatic (CD) driving provides a promising means to speed up quantum many-body systems. In this work, we show…

By developing the preceding work on the fast forward of transient phenomena of quantum tunneling by Khujakulov and Nakamura (Phys. Rev. {\bf A 93}, 022101 (2016) ), we propose a scheme of the exact fast forward of adiabatic control of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Katsuhiro Nakamura , Anvar Khujakulov , Sanat Avazbaev , Shumpei Masuda

We report the first experimental demonstration of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) in nuclear-spin transitions of $^{14}$N within nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color centers in diamond. It is shown that the STIRAP technique suppresses…

One of the main difficulties in preparing many-body ground states is achieving the target state through simple counterdiabatic controls. For critical systems crossing a transition to a topological phase, this task becomes even more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Rafael Bentes de Sales , Krissia Zawadzki